Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships

The field of refugee family research and intervention forms a growing field of scientific study, focussing on the refugee family as the central niche of coping with, and giving meaning to, trauma, cultural uprooting, and exile. This important new book develops an understanding of the role of refugee family relationships in post-trauma healing and provides an in-depth analysis of central clinical-therapeutic themes in refugee family psychosocial interventions. Expert contributions from across transcultural psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and social work have provided chapters on post-trauma reconstruction in refugee family relationships, trauma care for refugee families, and intersectorial psychosocial interventions with refugee families. This exploration of refugee family systems in both research and clinical practice aims to promote a systemic perspective in health and social services working with families in refugee mental health care.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/06/2020
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.5lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.36w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781108429030

About the Author
de Haene, Lucia: - Lucia De Haene obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Sciences in 2009 at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) with a dissertation on refugee parent-child relationships. She is Assistant Professor affiliated to the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (KU Leuven), and Associate Professor (tenured) from 2018 onwards. She is involved in research on the psychosocial impact of forced migration in refugee family relationships and clinical research on transcultural trauma care with refugee families. Lucia coordinates a family and community therapeutic service in refugee trauma care at the Faculty's Clinical Centre PraxisP. She is licensed family therapist (Postgraduate Degree in Family Therapy Studies, KU Leuven), involved in training family therapy and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program Psychotraumatherapy (KU Leuven).Rousseau, Cécile: - Cécile Rousseau is professor of psychiatry at McGill University and Scientific Director of the Research Institute on Health and Cultural Diversity SHERPA. She coordinates an academic mental health care centre (CLSC Parc Extension), where she leads and supervises a clinical team in working with immigrant and refugee families in close collaboration with primary care settings. She has worked extensively with immigrant and refugee communities, developing specific school based interventions and leading policy-oriented research. Presently, her research focuses on the evaluation of collaborative mental health care models for youth in multiethnic neighborhoods and intervention and prevention programs to address youth radicalization.