Handbook of Refugee Experience

<p><em>Handbook of Refugee Experience: Trauma Resilience and Recovery</em> 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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br /><em>Handbook of Refugee Experience</em> is an ideal resource for counseling health care and social work courses or any other course that prepares future practitioners to assist refugee populations.</p><p><strong>Jeffrey A. Kottler</strong> is one of the most prominent authors in the fields of counseling psychotherapy health and education having written over 100 books across a broad range of topics. He is a clinical professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and professor emeritus of counseling at California State University Fullerton. He has served as a counselor therapist supervisor educator and social justice advocate in a variety of professional settings throughout his career.</p><p><strong>Sophia Banu</strong> is an associate professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Baylor College of Medicine.</p><p><strong>Suni Jani</strong> is a child adolescent and adult psychiatrist. Dr. Jani earned her M.D. and M.P.H. from The George Washington University. She completed the remainder of her psychiatry training at the Baylor College of Medicine and her child and adolescent training at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School.</p>