BOOK
A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Paul Cilia La Corte | Angelina Jalonen | Jerry Clore
(2017)
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Abstract
The need to support refugees has never been more urgent, but how can everyone working with them provide consistently effective care? Written for a range of professionals including therapists, teachers, social workers, housing support workers and healthcare professionals, this essential guide offers a holistic, person-centred framework to ensure that all those working with refugees to provide them with excellent support.
Informed by the authors' direct work with refugees, the book starts with a comprehensive introduction to understanding the underlying issues that lead to the complex needs of an asylum seeking client group. Using an easy-to-follow 'what?', 'why?' and 'how?' structure, within the four key phases of refugee experience. It also shows professionals how to sensitively address trauma, loss and separation with clients who are adjusting to a foreign culture and language using three core principles (therapeutic relationship, bearing witness and psycho-education).
Informed and accessible, this guide will help you create a safe, welcoming environment for asylum seekers in all stages of their journey to improve their psychosocial wellbeing and mental health.
This is a sensitive and compassionately written handbook that places the refugee and asylum seekers' experience in a very real and human context. It offers insight to help those working with them to avoid falling into the dynamic of victim and expert helper, whilst never ignoring the multiple challenges the client is likely to experience.
Natasha Moskovici, therapeutic caseworker, Refugee Council
Angelina Jalonen and Paul Cilia La Corte are integrative counsellors who hold Masters in Refugee Care. Since 2011 they have been working together to develop The Refugee Council's therapeutic framework for refugees in the UK.
This handbook will be of particular interest to medical professionals in general practice, as their experience can hinder or facilitate a refugee's interaction with healthcare. The important insight this book provides not only improves the patient's outcome and experience, but also the efficiency of the healthcare system.
Dr Florence Mukuna MBCHB, GP trainee East London
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees by Angelina Jalonen and Paul Cilia La Corte | 2 | ||
| Foreword | 7 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 9 | ||
| Preface | 11 | ||
| Introduction | 13 | ||
| Part 1 - Understanding: The Refugee Phenomena | 21 | ||
| 1. The Refugee Experience | 23 | ||
| 2. Loss, Separation and Trauma in the Four Phases | 32 | ||
| 3. Host Country Acculturation | 40 | ||
| 4. The Complex and Multiple Levels of Needs | 46 | ||
| 5. Self-Identity and Human Resilience | 55 | ||
| 6. Refugee Trauma and Mental Health | 64 | ||
| Part 2 - Three Core Principles | 73 | ||
| 7. The Therapeutic Relationship | 75 | ||
| 8. Bearing Witness | 88 | ||
| 9. Psychoeducation | 99 | ||
| Part 3 - Working With Groups and Separated Children | 111 | ||
| 10. Building on Strengths and Resilience through Community Engagement | 112 | ||
| 11. Working with Separated Children Asylum Seekers | 124 | ||
| Part 4 | 137 | ||
| Part 4 - Practitioners First Aid and Toolbox | 137 | ||
| 12. Self-Reflective Practice and Self-Care | 139 | ||
| 13. Working with Interpreters | 152 | ||
| 14. Conclusion | 158 | ||
| Appendix A- Family Genogram | 161 | ||
| Appendix B - External Factors | 162 | ||
| Appendix C - Fear & Sadness | 163 | ||
| Appendix D - Crisis Intervention | 164 | ||
| References | 165 | ||
| Index | 169 | ||
| About the Authors | 175 | ||
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