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Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children

Made for people working with refugee children and interested in their mental health needs, this series of podcasts outlines a number of topics: approaches to psychological assessments for refugee children, PTSD, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Trauma Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and how a child's family, home, community and school environments can impact their mental health once settled in a new country.
Produced by Dr Esther Schroeder for the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford (2019)

# Episode Title Description People Date
6 Psychological Assessment Approaches for Refugee Children Barriers, diagnostic difficulties, and cultural and language considerations for doing a thorough psychological assessment. Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Ruth Reed, Katy Robjant 05 Feb 2019
5 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Refugee Children What traumatic events can increase the risk of having PTSD, how children with PTSD present, what happens in the brain, and grounding techniques. Esther Schroeder, Kerry Young, Katy Robjant 05 Feb 2019
4 Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) What is NET, how it is used, who can be trained to do NET, and outlining the sessions. Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Katy Robjant, Kerry Young 05 Feb 2019
3 Trauma Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) What is TF-CBT, how is it used with young people post trauma, and how young people can be assisted to continue with therapy. Esther Schroeder, Ruth Reed 05 Feb 2019
2 Family, Home and Community Interventions for Refugee Children How the family, home and community impact refugee children’s mental health and what can be done to support them. Links between parental and children’s mental health, and recognising young people’s agency. Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Aoife O'Higgins, Katy Robjant 05 Feb 2019
1 School Based Approaches for Mental Health Interventions Outlining the opportunities schools have to work on their own school culture to best support refugee children with mental health problems, and unaccompanied refugee children in schools. Esther Schroeder, Mina Fazel, Aoife O'Higgins 05 Feb 2019