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Working with Refugees
(Ref D35)
The unique nature of the refugee condition creates a multiplicity of problems. The complexity and variability of refugee needs as well as the resulting pressures on the workers are such that they require most delicate treatment.
This course aims to assist those working with refugees to develop and enhance their understanding and skills in the context of their own experience.
Using systemic and psychodynamic approaches, it aims to create a facilitative space within which to consider the complexities of the refugee condition from a more global perspective including therapeutic, clinical, theoretical, organisational and political dimensions.
The course is inter-disciplinary and is open to all professionals and non-professional workers who are engaged in (or want to) work with refugees in different capacities (from voluntary workers and social workers to managers and psychotherapists).
MA/PhD in Refugee Care
(Ref M35)*
This course aims to equip students to work directly with refugees and asylum seekers. The programme prepares students:
• for work as competent, reflective and pro-active workers with refugees/asylum seekers in a variety of different work settings and remits
• to meet the challenges imposed by those wider societal parameters (e.g. changing legislation, political priorities, public opinion) that affect refugees directly and indirectly
• to conceptualise and formulate refugee-related projects (for research and/or service purposes)
The programme combines theoretical, practical and experiential modes of learning.
* Offered in partnership with the University of Essex
Forthcoming Conference
Working with Traumatised Refugees and Asylum Seekers, 4 July 2008 (1.00 - 5.15pm)
Further information
Directorate of Training and Postgraduate Education, Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
Tel: 020 8938 2289 Fax: 020 7447 3837 Email: systems2admin@tavi-port.org Website: www.tavi-port.org