Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home (Tavistock Clinic Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367105268 ISBN 13: 9780367105266

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees. It covers theory and research as well as clinical and field applications, emphasising the psychotherapeutic perspective. It explores the delicate balance between accepting the resilience of refugees whilst not neglecting their psychological needs, within a framework that avoids pathologising their condition. Moreover, it deals with the difficulties in delineating the various relevant intersecting perspectives to the refugee reality, e.g. psychological, socio-political, legal, organisational and ethical. The book introduces important considerations about the actual psychotherapy with refugees (in individual, family and group settings) but in addition, it encourages the introduction of therapeutic elements to all types of work with refugees. Thus, it argues for the necessity of approaching every facet of the refugee experience from a therapeutic perspective; this is why the title refers to therapeutic care rather than to psychotherapy.

About this title

About the Author:

Renos Papadopoulos

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367105268
• ISBN 13: 9780367105266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Papadopoulos Renos K.