Utilising Group Therapy Approaches to Assist Recovery of Refugee Children from their Past Experiences
This essential Clinical Master Class will reveal how groupwork is a powerful intervention to help young people from refugee backgrounds cope with transitioning to a new culture, disclose personal material in a safe environment, normalise their symptoms, and build trust and new relationships.
From Anthony Gleeson, a Clinical Psychologist, you will learn about why it is important for any organisation to consider offering groupwork when working with traumatised young people. He will provide practical guidelines for organisations and professionals to consider.
Marc Chaussivert, a STARTTS Psychologist, will present a real-life case of a therapeutic group that he facilitated weekly with an art therapist that assisted traumatised young orphans evacuated from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. He will showcase the positive therapeutic outcomes that demonstrated the group’s effectiveness in supporting the children’s recovery in Australia.
You will be able to engage with Anthony Gleeson and Marc Chaussivert via a live Q&A panel discussion facilitated by STARTTS’ Deputy CEO, Lachlan Murdoch. You will come away with many ideas for groupwork that can assist traumatised young people recover from their experiences.
Anthony Gleeson
Anthony Gleeson MClinPsych is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, family therapist and group consultant with 40 years’ experience working with individuals, couples, families, groups and organisatons. He has worked in hospitals, community health settings, juvenile justice and privately. He has taught group dynamics at post-graduate level and published in professional journals including Group Analysis. He was a past President of the Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists. He is now retired from clinical practice.
Marc Chaussivert
Marc Chaussivert is a Psychologist and a Senior Consultant/Counsellor at STARTTS where he has worked since 1994. He has degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and Clinical Psychology, and a post-graduate diploma in child and adolescent psychotherapy, a subject which he now also teaches. Marc has presented at conferences in Australia and internationally, contributed to peer-reviewed publications, and participated in the development of torture and trauma treatment and recovery services overseas, most notably in East Timor following the departure of the occupying Indonesian forces. Marc has a special interest in both art and play as pathways to recovery from trauma and has run a number of group interventions with children and adolescents that utilize such an approach.
Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch is STARTTS’ Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Lachlan has worked with refugees and asylum seekers for twenty five years in a variety of capacities. Since joining STARTTS Lachlan has held several management positions delivering programmes to refugee survivors of torture and trauma including within early intervention and rural and regional services. Overseas, Lachlan worked with organisations assisting repatriated refugees and displaced people in Central America in the 1990s. He is presently a Management Committee member of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS Australia) and was previously a long standing Board member of the Asylum Seekers Centre of NSW.
CPD points – 1.5 CPD hours
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