Improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees is organized by Healthcare Conferences UK and would be held On Jun 08, 2016 at ICO Conference Centre, London, England, United Kingdom. The targeted audience for this medical meeting basically for Physicians.

Through national updates, practical case studies and extended interactive masterclasses the conference will look at developing local services and responses, developing early access to psychological first aid, delivering psychosocial support to refugees. The conference also includes interactive sessions drawing on theory from psychotherapy(eg the effects of counter transference), narrative and systemic family approaches, community and liberation practices, working with asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced trauma, and therapeutic care of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum.

Gillian Hughes Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist at the Tavistock: “delegates will benefit from a range of learning outcomes including: a better understanding of the psychological impact of traumatic experiences associated with asylum seekers and refugees; an insight into some of the methodologies used by specialist teams to support these populations; and the development of skills as practitioners in responding to the needs of these communities.