Open Leaves Books: New Products - Refugees

Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:25:40 +0000

Published USA, 2010
This book offers contributions from an international group of experts in posttraumatic growth (PTG) within diverse cultures and subcultures. It uniquely illuminates the nature, meaning and clinical implications of PTG across a wide ran..

Price: $60.00

No Place Like Home

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:36:57 +0000

Published Australia, 2005
All these stories on the theme of home are of journeys: stories of homes lost and homes gained...Perhaps we only fully understand what home means when we lose it, or have to remake it.

The stories in this anthology were collecte..

Price: $20.00

Social Work with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:45:32 +0000

Published UK, 2007
Unaccompanied children seeking asylum live in many of today`s industrialized nations, yet very little is known about their experiences and the ways in which social workers can help them. This book offers a comprehensive overview of our knowledge about the resettlement..

Price: $68.00

Honouring Differences

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:44:12 +0000

Published USA, 1999
This book helps us to move beyond our Western conceptions of trauma and its consequences and cures. The editors coalesce perspectives of traumatology both from the United States and several international communities. What is clear is the need to go beyond treating th..

Price: $95.00

Counselling and Therapy with Refugees and Victims of Trauma

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:43:01 +0000

Published USA, 1998
Many of those who are professionally involved with refugees and victims of trauma are not fully aware of the nature and background of their mental health problems, and they usually do not have the time or the opportunity to acquire a deeper understanding. `Empathy,` ..

Price: $85.00

Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:43:01 +0000

Published UK, 2005
This small-format book is based on work undertaken at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and Organized Violence (MF) in the UK. It generalizes the experiences of the clients who visited MF, the responses of counsellors and psychotherapists, and ..

Price: $38.00

Broken Spirits

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:42:18 +0000

Published USA, 2004
This comprehensive text explores the enormity of the issues and mental health problems of the millions of refugees, asylum seekers and torture victims around the world. Chapters by leading international authors discuss various therapeutic approaches, clinical interve..

Price: $125.00

Arts Therapists, Refugees and Migrants

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:41:51 +0000

Published UK, 1998. Reprinted 2005
This is a fascinating collection of essays on intercultural therapy practice - arts therapists working with refugees and migrants and those who themselves become migrants. Ditty Dokter is joined by contributors from a number of multicultural background..

Price: $55.00