Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness – Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Rebecca Horn, Kirsten Lamb (Eds.)

Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness – Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Rebecca Horn, Kirsten Lamb (Eds.)

Editor(s): Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Rebecca Horn, Kirsten Lamb

Publisher: Routledge

Print Length: 260 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies, Non-Fiction / Social Science

Area: Rwanda,  The United Kingdom (UK), Zimbabwe

Topic: Asylum & Refugee System, Feminism, Genre, Human Rights, Racism & Anti-Racism, The Notion of Home

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.

Witnessing resilience and suffering in refugees: a foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors

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 AND SUSAN WYATT

3 LISTEN TO OUR VOICES – WOMENS ASYLUM SEEKERS TOGETHER (WAST)

4 “WE ALL TOGETHER CARRY THE SUFFERING NOW”: COMMUNITY SUPPORTS AFTER ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES IN PERU – MIRYAM RIVERA-HOLGUÍN, VICTORIA CAVERO, JOZEF CORVELEYN
AND 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, LETICIA BIIRA BIRUNGI AND ELIAS MANIRAKIZA

6 HOME AWAY FROM HOME: HEALING AMONG CONGOLESE REFUGEES IN RWANDA THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIOTHERAPY – THEOPHILE SEWIMFURA, EMMANUEL SARABWE AND ANNEMIEK RICHTERS

7 WOMEN AND GIRLS SAFE SPACES: THE POWER OF FEMINIST SOCIAL GROUPWORK IN HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS – MELANIE MEGEVAND, MICAH WILLIAMS AND 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 AND 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 AND MACARENA RIOSECO

14 THE ART OF HEALING IN A TRANSITORY CONTEXT:
GROUPWORK WITH PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM IN ASYLUM
CENTRES IN KOSOVO – ARDIANA BYTYÇI, MALISA ZYMBERI, BESNIK RUSTEMI, EJONA MIRAKA ICKA AND
FERIDE RUSHITI

15 STONE FLOWERS: A MUSIC GROUP WITH REFUGEE SURVIVORS OF TORTURE – CHRISTINE ADCOCK, JUDE BOYLES, LIS MURPHY AND EMMANUELA YOGOLELO

16 SEEDS OF HOPE – MARY RAPHAELY AND 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

Index

Jude Boyles is a BACP senior accredited psychological therapist and feminist activist. She has been practising for the last 24 years. Before qualifying in 1994, Jude worked in the women’s movement, in a Rape Crisis centre and in Women’s Aid refuges for women fleeing domestic violence. She then worked as a counsellor in a non-medical mental health crisis service for 11 years, before establishing the Freedom from Torture North West Centre in Manchester in 2003, where she carried a caseload of torture survivors and managed the centre for 14 years. Jude currently works as a psychological therapist with Syrian refugees in the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme. 

Source: https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/authors/jude-boyles

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Robin Ewart-Biggs is a systemic family therapist who works with survivors of human rights abuses with a focus on groupwork. He runs a charity for young people with cancer.

Source: https://www.karnacbooks.com/Author.asp?AID=25059

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Rebecca Horn is an independent psychosocial specialist and senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

Source: https://www.routledge.com/Groupwork-with-Refugees-and-Survivors-of-Human-Rights-Abuses-The-Power-of-Togetherness/Boyles-Ewart-Biggs-Horn-Lamb/p/book/9781032043883?srsltid=AfmBOoqRLYPw0qxnVGmk9rIrL6iL4r-bUO_HTKTkiVoDBqa6lIHEEQDX

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Kirsten Lamb worked as a clinical psychologist in NHS mental health services from 1981 to 2018. Kirsten works with refugee charities on a freelance basis.

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