Employment And Traumatised Refugees

Author : Anja Weber Stendal,Lisbeth Mørk Iversen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789289360982

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Employment and traumatised refugees by Anja Weber Stendal,Lisbeth Mørk Iversen Pdf

This report presents the results of a study of effective employment initiatives for refugees and reunited refugee family members who are psychologically vulnerable, have symptoms of trauma or are traumatised. The study consists of a literature study and an exploratory investigation of existing practices for the target group in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The study shows that the knowledge base about effective employment initiatives for the target group is currently limited. Nevertheless, several best practices are identified that have a good probability of showing positive employment outcomes for the target group. The report presents the existing knowledge base in the litterature, detailed description of best practices and it identifies key prerequisites in creating effective employment initiatives for the target group.

Author : Eugene Guribye,Birgit Lie,Gwynyth Overland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443867771

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Nordic Work with Traumatised Refugees by Eugene Guribye,Birgit Lie,Gwynyth Overland Pdf

The Nordic welfare societies have been described as ‘beacons of light’ in work with refugees, with their emphasis on egalitarian and extensive benefit levels, wealth redistribution, promotion of gender equality and maximisation of labour force participation. Members of the population benefit from free education, universal healthcare and public services that provide an elaborate social safety net. The conditions seem favourable for refugees exposed to severely traumatic events in countries of origin and in flight who have come to rest in the safe havens of the Nordic countries. But has society really done what it could and should in the field of refugee mental health? Does it really care? This book provides an investigative perspective on challenges encountered by professionals in the Nordic countries in refugee mental health and care, addressing key contemporary challenges faced by forcibly displaced populations. Leading academics and practitioners working with refugees in clinics, universities and research centres in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, nursing, physical therapies, social work, child care, education, anthropology, and sociology present their work on care, treatment perspectives, human rights, families in flight and exile, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants. In general, the growing focus on trauma, refugee streams and unresolved issues around the world makes this book a useful source work for the increasing number of professions being drawn into this work. In regard to universities and colleges, it offers transcultural perspectives in medicine, nursing, social work and social science.

Author : Anja Weber Stendal,Lisbeth Mørk Iversen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9289360976

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Employment and Traumatised Refugees by Anja Weber Stendal,Lisbeth Mørk Iversen Pdf

Author : Gwynyth Overland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:897359696

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Nordic Work with Traumatised Refugees by Gwynyth Overland Pdf

Author : Stephan Zipfel,Monique C. Pfaltz,Ulrich Schnyder
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889458400

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Refugee Mental Health by Stephan Zipfel,Monique C. Pfaltz,Ulrich Schnyder Pdf

The focus of this Research Topic is on research that aims to understand the relationships between pre-migration stressors and potentially traumatic experiences, post-migration living difficulties, and mental health in refugees of both sexes throughout the lifespan. We know very little about how concepts of assessing and treating mental health conditions actually work when applied to traumatized refugee populations from different cultures (e.g., the Yazidis people from northern Iraq). Moreover, there is also a great need to better understand the relationship between mental health and refugees’ integration in their host countries’ societies (acquiring language skills, fitness for work, economic independence, private life, etc.). This Research Topic will also focus on the issue of culture—the extent to which concepts of mental health care can translate and be implemented in different social, economic, and cultural settings around the world.

Author : Lucia De Haene,Cécile Rousseau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108429030

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Working with Refugee Families by Lucia De Haene,Cécile Rousseau Pdf

This important new book explores how to support refugee family relationships in promoting post-trauma recovery and adaptation in exile.

Author : Aida Alayarian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000924961

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Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma by Aida Alayarian Pdf

In this prescient and sensitive volume, Aida Alayarian looks at how psychoanalysis in group settings can benefit refugees who have experienced trauma, with an express focus on transference and countertransference. Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma offers a comprehensive overview of trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective, before delving into the nuance of trauma experienced by asylum seekers, refugees and those who have gone through forced migration. Through clinical vignettes, Alayarian highlights the importance of the resilience that can be brought about from group sessions and shared experience in helping to heal the wounds of trauma. She looks at the vital role of social injustice in this trauma and shows how this can be directly applied to work with other groups experiencing human rights violations, destitution, and loss. She shows how looking at relational patterns as a means of understanding conscious, unconscious, and subconscious thought processes can provide essential breakthroughs with patients, as well as the importance of paying close attention to countertransference to avoid a breakdown of the clinical relationship. Using psychoanalytic theories from intercultural perspectives to show the multidimensional nature of work with trauma patients, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health experts working with refugees and patients experiencing trauma.

Author : Sonia McKay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135858858

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Refugees, Recent Migrants and Employment by Sonia McKay Pdf

Pt. 1. Concepts and methodologies -- pt. 2. State policies in relation to migrants and refugees -- pt. 3. Structural discrimination and strategies of response.

Author : Jeffrey Kottler,Sophia Banu,Suni Jani
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516526759

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Handbook of Refugee Experience (First Edition) by Jeffrey Kottler,Sophia Banu,Suni Jani Pdf

Handbook of Refugee Experience: Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery is a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners who work with refugee populations. This collection explores contemporary issues including migration, war, oppression, genocide, health crises, and racial and cultural identities to shed light on the refugee experience. The text offers a balance of theory, research, case studies, narratives, and clinical application, while emphasizing the concepts of resilience, recovery, and successful adaptation. The first section of the handbook examines the social, cultural, and political contexts in which refugees experience their lives. The second section features powerful narratives from refugees that illuminate what it feels like to survive, recover, and flourish after exile. In the third section, readers hear from helping professionals about their struggles, challenges, frustrations, and triumphs while serving refugee populations. The fourth section focuses on clinical considerations, discussing common assessment and treatment issues, as well as practical techniques, interventions, and community-based strategies that have proven successful. The final section focuses on resilience and courage, exploring the gifts refugees, and their helpers, have received after surviving difficult life circumstances. Handbook of Refugee Experience is an ideal resource for counseling, health care, and social work courses, or any other course that prepares future practitioners to assist refugee populations.

Author : Selam Kidane
Publisher : Langaa RPCID
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 995655250X

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Trauma, Collective Trauma and Refugee Trajectories in the Digital Era by Selam Kidane Pdf

Forced migration has become an inescapable reality of our world in the 21st century. Why? The traumatic experiences of refugees are key to understanding why people keep on the move despite enormous risks. This book sheds light into the psychological impact entailed in refugee trajectories. With findings mainly from Eritrean refugee communities in multiple locations, the underpinning research reveals alarming levels of individual and collective trauma. The book outlines a new approach for treatment: Trauma, Recovery, Understanding, Self-Help Therapy - TRUST. The intervention was developed as a practical and low resource support to traumatised vulnerable refugees. TRUST utilises information technology to reduce levels of trauma, enabling refugees to build social and economic resilience as an alternative to pursuing risky migratory trajectories. The study concludes that providing psycho-social support is a more prudent alternative to managing forced migration and avoiding the use of hostile refugee polices that expose refugees to more trauma and put them at risk of heinous organised crimes including human trafficking. TRUST resulted in significant positive outcomes for refugee wellbeing even in deprived refugee camps.

Author : Shaifali Sandhya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197579886

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Displaced by Shaifali Sandhya Pdf

Drawing on firsthand accounts and empirical research, as well as interviews with government officials, agency directors, and refugee camp managers, Displaced explores the psychological trauma of refugees and the complex interplay between trauma, integration into host nations, and the consequences of failing to attend to refugee mental health as part of comprehensive resettlement initiatives worldwide.

Author : John P. Wilson,Boris Drozdek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135946425

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Broken Spirits by John P. Wilson,Boris Drozdek Pdf

Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims and political refugees does not exist. Broken Spirits aims to bring together the works of the most respected mental health professionals - from the U.S. and abroad - and make available the most current knowledge on complex PTSD, forced migration and cultural sensitivity in diagnosis and treatment.

Author : Trine Øland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351264426

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Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State by Trine Øland Pdf

Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State provides an ambiguous yet disturbing portrait of the inner workings of the Danish welfare state and its implications in a context of globalisation and migration. Through a sociological interview-study with welfare workers, this book describes how processes of othering are undercurrents of welfare work. The processes construct immigrants and refugees as a kind of people who are not only culturally different but also behind, deficient and weak, and thus assigned the potential to benefit from welfare work. These processes are designated to advance a racial welfare dynamic of remedial circularity which keeps the immigrant and refugee on the threshold of modern living and democracy. It is thus depicted how welfare work is intertwined not with a biological framework but with a cultural framework naturalising and ontologising cultural differences. The book examines how welfare work tends to appreciate immigrants and refugees as dislocated people with a cultural lack and how it abides by the dictums of civilising expansions and humanitarian imperialism within the modern state. This book will be useful for every scholar who wants to reconsider and think differently about how the welfare state is going to proceed in a global society.

Author : Selam Kidane
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956552054

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Trauma, Collective Trauma and Refugee Trajectories in the Digital Era by Selam Kidane Pdf

Forced migration has become an inescapable reality of our world in the 21stcentury. Why? The traumatic experiences of refugees are key to understanding why people keep on the move despite enormous risks. This book sheds light into the psychological impact entailed in refugee trajectories. With findings mainly from Eritrean refugee communities in multiple locations, the underpinning research reveals alarming levels of individual and collective trauma. The book outlines a new approach for treatment: Trauma, Recovery, Understanding, Self-Help Therapy TRUST. The intervention was developed as a practical and low resource support to traumatised vulnerable refugees. TRUST utilises information technology to reduce levels of trauma, enabling refugees to build social and economic resilience as an alternative to pursuing risky migratory trajectories. The study concludes that providing psycho-social support is a more prudent alternative to managing forced migration and avoiding the use of hostile refugee polices that expose refugees to more trauma and put them at risk of heinous organised crimes including human trafficking. TRUST resulted in significant positive outcomes for refugee wellbeing even in deprived refugee camps.

Author : Barbara Preitler
Publisher : StudienVerlag
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783706562645

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By Their Side by Barbara Preitler Pdf

'I want to help!' It's a thought that goes through many people's minds when they see refugees forced to seek safety in other countries. Some might find themselves asking further questions: What's the best way to talk to someone dealing with trauma? How can I establish a foundation of trust? How will our relationship function? The answers are contained within these pages. A handbook for volunteers, By Their Side offers a solid foundation for people supporting and working with refugees. In clear, comprehensible sections, Barbara Preitler discusses trauma and forced displacement from a psychological point of view, imparting advice and background knowledge, and illustrating ways in which we can deepen our understanding of others and work to build good interpersonal relationships. She encourages us to seek out opportunities for new encounters, helping people with different cultural backgrounds and experiences to build strong relationships.