Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees

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. It also includes practical information on advocacy, supervision and working with interpreters.

Acknowledgments. 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. 13. Advocacy - protection, asylum and welfare rights. 14. Supervision. 15. Summary. Appendix A: Further Reading. Appendix B: Resources. Index.