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Social Exclusion, Compound Trauma and Recovery

Social Exclusion, Compound Trauma and Recovery

Peter Cockersell | John Connolly | Nicola Saunders | Dr Emma Williamson | Catriona Reid | Dr Sally Read | Terry Hutton

(2018)

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Abstract

Responding to the growing number of psychologically-informed services for people experiencing social exclusion and, in particular, homelessness, this book gives professionals the information and understanding they need to be fully informed in their practice with this client group. It begins with theory, looking at the psychology of social exclusion and the processes that underlie it, and considers the relationship between trauma, complex needs, homelessness and social exclusion. Presenting practical interventions and case studies, the authors then reveal what makes an effective service in practice and a client perspective on social exclusion and recovery is provided.

This is essential reading for all those involved in developing services that meet the needs of socially excluded people with histories of complex trauma or presentations of complex needs, including those who are homeless, refugees and asylum seekers, Traveller and Roma communities and people involved with the criminal justice system.


Based on his many years' work with some of society's most excluded and alienated people, Cockersell has coined the term 'compound trauma' and produced a vivid account of how life goes wrong, and what we can do about it. By drawing on modern psychoanalytic thinking, developmental neurobiology and current ideas of therapeutic environments, he presents the most complex problems in an accessible and engaging way.
Rex Haigh, Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Therapeutic Environments and Relational Health, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Nottingham University
Becoming homeless is a traumatic experience, but very, very often it is just one more such experience in a life characterised by exclusion, neglect and abuse. A powerful and hopeful call for us to recognise how our common humanity makes us all 'interdependent', this new book will help colleagues right across the homeless sector (and beyond) reflect on the central importance of building and modelling good quality relationships. As they explore the many paradoxes that inhabit the world of homelessness - clients who reject care may need the most care, caring for others can help us care for ourselves - Peter Cockersell and colleagues challenge us to recognise multi-morbidity as a condition in its own right, and one that demands a long-term, psychologically informed, compassionate response. If you work in the homelessness sector you need to read this book.
Alex Bax, Chief Executive, Pathway
Peter Cockersell sets out a compelling and plausible narrative for how homelessness can follow successive experiences of trauma and abandonment rather than just being the result of "bad choices". His psychodynamic model of understanding social exclusion gives us a better way of understanding why some homeless people seem to reject help - and some real clues as to how we can change our practice to work more effectively for such people.
Dr Philip Timms FRCPsych, Honorary Senior Lecturer, King’s College London

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Social Exclusion, Compound Trauma and Recovery: Applying Psychology, Psychotherapy and PIE to Homelessness and Complex Needs, edited by Peter Cockersell 3
Preface 7
1. Understanding the Problem 11
1. Social Exclusion, Complex Needs and Homelessness by Dr Peter Cockersell 13
2. Compound Trauma and Complex Needs by Dr Peter Cockersell 26
3. The Process of Social Exclusion by Dr Peter Cockersell 37
2. Solutions: Principles of Practice 59
4. A Psychological Perspective on Recovery by Dr Peter Cockersell 61
5. Applying Psychology as a Response to the Impact of Social Exclusion: PIE and Psychotherapy in Homelessness Services by Dr Peter Cockersell 80
3. Solutions: Practice and Experience 107
6. Pre-treatment Therapy Approach for Single Homeless People: The Co-Construction of Recovery/Discovery by John Conolly 109
7. Psychotherapy with Homeless Women by Nicola Saunders 134
8. PIE-oneering Psychological Integration in Homeless Hostels by Dr Emma Williamson 149
9. PIE: What the People Say by Dr Catriona Reid 160
10. Streetlight: Homeless Psychotherapy in Britain’s Happiest Town by Dr Sally Read 175
11. I Held the Ticket in My Hand by Terry Hutton 192
4. Conclusion: Contextualising the Problem in the Culture and System of Care 207
12. The Problem and Potential of Complexity by Dr Peter Cockersell 209
13. The Treatment of Multi-morbidity by Dr Peter Cockersell 227
14. The Dependency Paradox by Dr Emma Williamson 242
Authors’ Biographies 254
Subject Index 257
Author Index 261
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