Psychological Support for Refugee Adolescents: An Expressive Arts Approach to Wellbeing and Trauma Recovery [Paperback]

Foreword by Cathy A. Malchiodi.  Introduction  1. The Impact of the Adolescent Migration Trajectory  2. Stress and the Developing Refugee Adolescent Brain  3. Reframing Adolescent Refugee Mental Health as Well-Being: Optimising Help-seeking Opportunities and Overcoming Stigma  4. A Trauma-informed, Therapeutic Approach for all Professionals working with Refugee Adolescents  5. Expressive Arts in Psychotherapy with Traumatised Refugee Adolescents  6. Integrating the Expressive Arts into Non-clinical Psychosocial Support for Adolescent Refugees  7. Introduction to the Case Studies  8. Daahir's Story: Developing a Mental Health Toolbox and Healing Trauma through the Expressive Arts  9. Nabeel's Story: Learning to Feel Again  10. Anastasiya's Story: Being Supported to Cope with Sleep Disturbances and Nightmares  11. Creative Connections: Omar's journey from Isolation to Community through Football-themed Group Youth Work and Individual Psychotherapy  12. Ovie's Story: Voices Beyond Silence: Collective Healing for Displaced Youth  13. Working with Interpreters to Support Refugee Adolescents  14. Self-care through the Expressive Arts  15. Activity Locator: Finding Expressive Arts Tools by Need and Chapter  Conclusions

Dr Rachel Hoare has generously provided practitioners with a brilliant book that captures how expressive arts are essential in supporting adolescents challenged by traumatic stress. Articulately written, it is groundbreaking in scope and breadth and provides practitioners with numerous practical, informative, and inspirational guidelines and strategies. This volume is a must read for anyone who works with traumatic stress and elevates the role of expressive arts (movement, sound, image, enactment, and narrative) to its essential place as a psychotherapeutic intervention for refugl38