Main description:

Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts.

Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in different settings, such as torture rehabilitation services, refugee camps, and reception centres. The voices of participants demonstrate the variety, creativity, and value of group and community approaches for recovery. The editors have gathered chapters into three sections covering: community-based approaches; groups that work through the medium of "body and soul"; and group approaches that focus on change through the spoken word.

The book will be relevant to those working in rehabilitation, community, mental health, and humanitarian fields and are interested in using groupwork as part of their services.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Contents:

Foreword. Boris Drozdek; Introduction. The Editors; 1. Group and Community Approaches: A response to the barriers of institutional racism in the UK asylum system. Robin Ewart-Biggs; SECTION 1 - Building communities; 2. Tree of Life Zimbabwe: Community-Based Trauma Healing. Lynn Walker, Eugenia Mpande, Susan Wyatt; 3. Listen to Our Voices: Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST); 4. "We all together carry the suffering now": Community supports after enforced disappearances in Peru. Miryam Rivera-Holguin, Victoria Cavero, Jozef Corveleyn, Lucia De Haene; 5. What is the use of talking when I can't feed my children? TPO Uganda's integrated approach to supporting refugees. Grace Obalim, Caleb Tukahiirwa, Letitia Biira Birungi, Elias Manirakiza; 6. Home Away from Home: Healing among Congolese refugees in Rwanda through community-based sociotherapy. Theophile Sewimfura, Emmanuel Sarabwe, Annemiek Richters; 7. Women and Girls Safe Spaces: The power of feminist social groupwork in humanitarian settings, Melanie Megevand, Micah Williams, Laura Marchesini; 8. A Therapeutic Community for Survivors of Torture and Human Rights Abuses. Room to Heal; 9. The Use of Groupes de Parole as a Medium for Change in the Tunisian Penal System: Confronting institutional violence in a context of democratic transition. Mark Fish, Rim Ben Ismail; 10. Author Discussion: Building Communities; SECTION 2 - 'Body and Soul'; 11. Adversity, Therapeutic Witnessing and the Arts. Enda Moclair; 12. A Move Towards Groupwork: Addressing Complex PTSD in Survivors of Torture through Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and LGBTQ Peer Support Groups. Aisling Hearns; 13. Homelands and New Lands: Artmaking with refugee survivors of human rights abuses. Amanda Bingley, Emma Rose, Macarena Rioseco; 14. The Art of Healing in a Transitory Context: Groupwork with people seeking asylum in asylum centres in Kosovo. Ardiana Bytyci, Malisa Zymberi, Besnik Rustemi, Ejona Miraka Icka, Feride Rushiti; 15. Stone Flowers: A Music Group with Refugee Survivors of Torture. Christine Adcock, Jude Boyles, Lis Murphy, Emmanuela Yogolelo; 16. Seeds of Hope. Mary Raphaely, Martha Orbach; 17. Football Therapy Groups for Survivors of Torture. Terry Hanley; 18. Author Discussion: Body and Soul; SECTION 3 - Together through Talk; 19. Healing through Connecting: The life of a Tamil-English therapy group for male survivors of torture. Kirsten Lamb; 20. Connecting Hearts and Minds: A faith-sensitive psychosocial group model. Weihui Wang; 21. Sew to Speak: Common Threads Project Psychotherapy Circles. Rachel Cohen; 22. Voicing the Unspoken. Support our Sisters: A model of groupwork for women affected by female genital mutilation. Peggy Mulongo; 23. Author Discussion: Together through Talk