Description
This webinar contextualizes trauma within a socio-political context and explores the different factors that impact the mental health of youth survivors of war and torture. It highlights the importance of an anti-oppressive approach when engaging youth.
Research indicates that asylum seekers’ pre-migration trauma is exacerbated by the post-migration/ settlement phase where an asylum seeker is faced with additional layers of structural challenges in the host country adversely impacting the person’s ability to cope (Isakson, Legarski & Layne, 2015; Hadfield, Ungar & Ostrowski, 2017). Some of the topics that will be covered include: barriers to engagement with refugee children and youth, the role of the education system and its impact on families who experience trauma and torture and ongoing critical self-reflection in our own work with refugee children and youth.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine trauma within a socio-political context as it relates to children and youth survivors.
- Recognize the importance of an anti-oppressive approach when engaging youth survivors of war and torture.
- Compare pre-migration and post-migration factors that adversely impact the mental health of the children and youth survivors.
- Reflect on how to improve supports for children and youth that are refugees or survivors of conflict or disasters.
Course Format
This is a one-hour webinar delivered over Zoom.
