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Counselling and psychotherapy with refugees [electronic resource] / Dick Blackwell.

By: Blackwell, Dick.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2005General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-113) and index.Description: 1 online resource (124 p.).ISBN: 1846421047 (electronic bk.); 9781846421044 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Political refugees -- Mental health | Political refugees -- Counseling of | Refugees -- Mental health | Refugees -- Counseling of | Post-traumatic stress disorder -- TreatmentGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 616.8914086914 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
Contents:
Cover; Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part I Setting the Scene: Openings and Engagements; 1 Who and What This Book is For; 2 Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Refugee Experience; 3 Assessment, Suitability and Adaptation; Part II The Refugee's Experience; 4 Political Level; 5 Cultural Level; 6 Interpersonal Level; 7 Intrapsychic Level; Part III The Therapist's Experience; 8 Political Level; 9 Cultural Level; 10 Interpersonal Level; 11 Intrapsychic Level; Part IV Essential Additions: Completing the Picture; 12 Working with Interpreters.
Summary: This concise book is an essential tool to help counsellors and psychotherapists understand and engage with the experiences of persecution, violence and exile often faced by refugees. Dick Blackwell's unique framework is based on work carried out at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. It offers a flexible approach to the special circumstances of displaced and traumatized clients from different cultural and political backgrounds. The author considers four levels of experience - political, cultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic - and explores each of these in relation to.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-113) and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Cover; Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part I Setting the Scene: Openings and Engagements; 1 Who and What This Book is For; 2 Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Refugee Experience; 3 Assessment, Suitability and Adaptation; Part II The Refugee's Experience; 4 Political Level; 5 Cultural Level; 6 Interpersonal Level; 7 Intrapsychic Level; Part III The Therapist's Experience; 8 Political Level; 9 Cultural Level; 10 Interpersonal Level; 11 Intrapsychic Level; Part IV Essential Additions: Completing the Picture; 12 Working with Interpreters.

This concise book is an essential tool to help counsellors and psychotherapists understand and engage with the experiences of persecution, violence and exile often faced by refugees. Dick Blackwell's unique framework is based on work carried out at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. It offers a flexible approach to the special circumstances of displaced and traumatized clients from different cultural and political backgrounds. The author considers four levels of experience - political, cultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic - and explores each of these in relation to.

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