Counselling And Psychotherapy With Refugees

Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees of related interest Arts Therapists, Refugees and Migrants Reaching Across Borders Edited by Ditty Dokter Foreword by Dick Blackwell ISBN 1 85302 550 X A House Next Door to Trauma Learning from Holocaust Survivors How to Respond to Atrocity Judith Hassan ISBN 1 85302 867 3 Trauma, the Body and Transformation A Narrative Inquiry Edited by Kim Etherington ISBN 1 84310 106 8 Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors Acting Out Your Pain Edited by Peter Felix Kellermann and M. K. Hudgins Foreword by Zerka T. Moreno ISBN 1 85302 893 2 Social Work, Immigration and Asylum Debates, Dilemmas and Ethical Issues for Social Work and Social Care Practice Edited by Debra Hayes and Beth Humphries Foreword by Steve Cohen ISBN 1 84310 194 7 Immigration Controls, the Family and the Welfare State A Handbook of Law, Theory, Politics and Practice for Local Authority, Voluntary Sector and Welfare State Workers and Legal Advisors Steve Cohen ISBN 1 85302 723 5 Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees Dick Blackwell Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution. The right of Dick Blackwell to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2005 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 116 Pentonville Road London N1 9JB, UK and 400 Market Street, Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA www.jkp.com Copyright © Dick Blackwell 2005 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978 1 84310 316 5 ISBN-10: 1 84310 316 8 ISBN pdf eBook: 1 84642 104 7 Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 Part I 3 Setting the Scene: Openings and Engagements Who and What This Book is For Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Refugee Experience Assessment, Suitability and Adaptation 18 22 4 5 6 7 Part II The Refugee’s Experience Political Level Cultural Level Interpersonal Level Intra