Therapeutic Care for Refugees

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.