Working with Refugee Families

Introduction. Working with refugee families Lucia De Haene and Cecile Rousseau; Part I. Refugee Family Relationships: Coping with Trauma and Exile: 1. The role of family functioning in refugee child and adult mental health Matthew Hodes and Nasima Hussain; 2. Transgenerational trauma transmission in refugee families: the role of traumatic suffering, attachment representations, and parental caregiving Nina Dalgaard, Marie Hogh Thogersen and Karin Riber; 3. Pre- and post-migration trauma and adversity: sources of resilience and family coping among West African refugee families Aicha Cisse, Lucia De Haene, Eva Keatley and Andrew Rasmussen; 4. Cultural belonging and political mobilization in refugee families: an exploration of the role of collective identifications in post-trauma reconstruction within family relationships Ruth Kevers and Peter Rober; 5. Forced separation, ruptured kinship and transnational family Ditte Shapiro and Edith Montgomery; 6. Family relationships and intra-family expectations in unaccompanied young refugees Ilse Derluyn and Winny Ang; Part II. Trauma Care For Refugee Families: 7. Mobilizing resources in multifamily groups Trudy Mooren and Julia Bala; 8. Working through trauma and restoring security in refugee parent-child relationships Mayssa El Husseini, Elisabetta Dozio, Malika Mansouri, Marion Feldman and Marie Rose Moro; 9. Trauma narration in family therapy with refugees: working between silence and story in supporting a meaningful engagement with family trauma history Lucia De Haene, Peter Adriaenssens, Nele Deruddere and Peter Rober; 10. Exile and belonging: negotiating identity, acculturation and trauma in refugee families Jaswant Guzder; 11. Working with spirituality in refugee care: ACT-Buddhism group for Cambodian Canadian refugees Kenneth Fung, Mony Mok and Vireak Phorn; 12. Collaborating with refugee families on dynamics of intra-family violence Kjerstin Almqvist; 13. Supporting refugee family reunification in exile Nora Sveaass and Sissel Reichelt; 14. Diagnosis as advocacy: medico-legal reports in refugee family care Debra Stein, Priyadarshani Raju and Lisa Andermann; 15. Reflexivity in the every-day lives and work of refugees and therapists Rukiya Jemmott and Inga-Britt Krause; Part III. Intersectoral Psychosocial Interventions in Working with Refugee Families: 16. Rebuilding trust and connectedness in exile: the role of health and social institutions Radhika Santhanam-Martin; 17. Family-school relationships in supporting refugee children's school trajectories Mina Fazel and Aoife O'Higgins; 18. Collaborative mental health care for refugee families in school context Garine Papazian-Zohrabian, Caterina Mamprin, Alyssa Turpin-Samson and Vanessa Lemire; 19. Interrogating legality and legitimacy in the post migratory context: working around traumatic repetition and re-enactment with refugee families Cecile Rousseau; Conclusion. Amplifying our engagement with refugee families beyond the therapeutic space Cecile Rousseau and Lucia De Haene.