Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Seeking Asylum and Mental Health

A Practical Guide for Professionals

Av Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki, Alison Summers

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Beskrivning

People seeking asylum face unique challenges and frequently experience mental health problems. Effective support requires an understanding of their mental health needs in the broader context of their lives, cultures and extreme experiences. This book provides practical guidance for professionals and services working with people seeking asylum in mental health, social care, legal, government. managerial and commissioning roles. With authors from a wide range of professional backgrounds, the book is enriched by accounts from people with first hand experience of the asylum system itself. It considers the challenges and dilemmas faced by all involved, including clients, clinicians and service planners, with a wealth of practical information about how to assess and understand strengths and needs, avoid inappropriate conclusions and discrimination, consider treatment options, and write records and reports. The authors emphasise that effective support depends on reflection, humanity and compassion. The book is a must-have resource for professionals working with those who have to seek asylum.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2022-09-01
Mått: 155 x 233 x 18 mm
Vikt: 520 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 334
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009292184

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Klinisk psykologi

Mer om författaren

Chris Maloney is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and General Practitioner. He worked as a GP with people seeking asylum for many years, and has been an expert witness in asylum cases since 2003. He is a co-author of Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (2nd edition), together with John Ballatt and Penny Campling (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Julia Nelki is a child psychiatrist and family therapist. She has set up services for families and unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Liverpool, is a trustee of a Refugee charity, and wrote medicolegal reports in asylum cases for twenty-five years. She now works with the Refugee Resilience Collective offering support to volunteers working with refugees. She has authored many peer reviewed publications and Villa Russo: A Jewish Story (Offizin Verlag 2022). Alison Summers is a general psychiatrist and psychodynamic psychotherapist. She has worked with people seeking asylum since 2008 as a psychotherapist and more recently a medico-legal report writer. She is a board member and medical report writer for Torture ID, and works with people seeking asylum that live in her local community.

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'A timely book, full of wisdom and practical advice for all those working with those who are seeking asylum. With contributions from those with lived experience and illuminating vignettes, the book takes the reader through the events and challenges faced …The book is a compendium of all you need to know to understand, assess, help, care for and work alongside and learn from displaced people. A humbling read, horrifying in places but always full of hope. Issues are addressed from the standpoint of the individual, and handled with sensitivity, dignity and respect. And a helpful reminder of the strength of the human spirit, the similarities amongst those who seek asylum but their very real differences. Most will not develop mental illness and normal responses to extreme challenges must not be pathologised. I thoroughly recommend to all who work in healthcare, and essential for those working closely with those who seek asylum.' Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK

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