Gillian Hughes
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
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Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 2014
Gillian Hughes
The Child and Family Refugee Service at the Tavistock Centre in London has run a series of ‘Tree of Life’ groups for both parents and children in schools. The groups were developed in response to a concern about the majority of psychological treatments, which focus predominantly on vulnerability factors in refugee populations, and the effect that this can have on those they are attempting to help. In addition, these are modelled on western assumptions, which do not adequately take account of culture. The Tree of Life groups have provided an alternative to traditional mental health services, which many refugee families find hard to access because of perceived stigma and lack of knowledge about what is on offer. The groups employed a strength-based narrative methodology, using the tree as a creative metaphor, which enabled parents and children to develop empowering stories about their lives, which were rooted in their cultural and social histories. From this secure base, participants were able to develop shared, culturally congruent solutions to their problems. The groups have been found to benefit parents and children alike, as well as the school communities in which they have taken place.
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 2018
Charlotte Burck; Gillian Hughes
This article describes the experience of setting up a psychosocial and therapeutic support project in the French Calais refugee camp, by a group of family therapists and clinical psychologists from the United Kingdom. This came about in response to reports of a humanitarian crisis unfolding on our doorstep, with the British government’s lack of support for the growing numbers of refugees gathering along the UK border with France. The project involved working alongside other agencies in the camp to provide psychosocial and resilience-based therapeutic support to unaccompanied young people, women, children and their families and also to many volunteers in the camp. The process of setting up the work is described, as well as the challenges and dilemmas of offering an intervention in extremely unsafe and insanitary conditions, where for most the experience of trauma was ongoing. The project was informed by systemic–narrative practice and community/liberation psychology, which incorporate the political and social context. A narrative framework offered a way of drawing on people’s strengths and resources, rooted in their cultural and social histories and helping them connect with preferred identities, which we found to be essential in the context of ongoing crisis.
Archive | 2015
Taiwo Afuape; Gillian Hughes
Archive | 2017
Sara Barratt; Laura Glendinning; Gillian Hughes
Archive | 2016
Gillian Hughes; Neil Rees
Archive | 2015
Gillian Hughes; Taiwo Afuape
Archive | 2015
Taiwo Afuape; Gillian Hughes
Archive | 2015
Gillian Hughes
Archive | 2015
Gillian Hughes; Sue Clayton
Archive | 2015
Gillian Hughes; Nsimire Aimee Bisimwa