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9783319729138: An Uncertain Safety: Integrative Health Care for the 21st Century Refugees

Synopsis

Presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the psychological and medical issues of forced migration

Discusses short and long-term challenges and solution models

Focuses on both evidence-based and tested, as well as innovative new concepts

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À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Wenzel, MD, is a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, working with refugees, and victims of torture and other violent crimes since 1986. He is co-founder of the Hemayat and Wellcome treatment centers for torture survivors, in Vienna, of the transcultural out-patient department at his University, co-founder and past chair of the World Psychiatric Association scientific section on Psychological Aspects of Persecution and Torture, past medical director of the IRCT (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims), served as Secretary General of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and is presently chair of the working groups on refugees and pluricultural therapies of the European Association for Psychotherapy and the World Council for Psychotherapy. International research, publications and teaching, especially in the UN Istanbul-protocol and transcultural medicine, and scientific coordination of several EU projects related to stress, trauma and resilience.

Boris Drozđek, MD, PhD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience in treating victims of war and political violence. He is currently associated with PsyQ/Parnassia group, Netherlands. In addition, he works in his private practice De Hemisfeer and is the international director of the Summer School of Psychotrauma in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dr. Drozđek publishes in the fields of psychotraumatology and transcultural psychiatry, and teaches and gives training and workshops on a regular basis worldwide. Together with John P. Wilson he has edited the books Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers and Refugees, War and Torture Victims (Brunner-Routledge, New York, 2004) and Voices of Trauma: Treating Survivors across Cultures (Springer, New York, 2007). He is the former board member of NtVP (The Dutch Psychotrauma Society), IRCT (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims) Executive Committee member, and currently a board member of the ISHHR (International Society for Health and Human Rights).

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9783030102869: An Uncertain Safety: Integrative Health Care for the 21st Century Refugees

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ISBN 10 :  3030102866 ISBN 13 :  9783030102869
Editeur : Springer, 2019
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