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Jungle Tracks; road to recovery and reflection- a story telling approach to assist refugee children, adolescents and parents integrate and manage the distress related to bereavement, trauma, discrimination and stress induced by the refugee experience.
Ms Pearl Fernandes

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This project evolved in response to difficulties experienced reaching and engaging with Children and Adolescents (C&A) using more traditional forms of therapy; approaches that rely heavily on life skills education, or directly thinking and discussing issues related to personal trauma and challenging past experiences.

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Recorded at the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)
March 2008, New South Wales, Australia.
Visit STARTTS at : www.STARTTS.org.au

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TITLE	SPEAKER	DURATION
Jungle Tracks; road to recovery and reflection- a story telling approach to assist refugee children, adolescents and parents integrate and manage the distress related to bereavement, trauma, discrimination and stress induced by the refugee experience.	Pearl Fernandes	25'49
Jungle Tracks; road to recovery and reflection- a story telling approach to assist refugee children, adolescents and parents integrate and manage the distress related to bereavement, trauma, discrimination and stress induced by the refugee experience.	Pearl Fernandes
Jungle Tracks; road to recovery and reflection- a story telling approach to assist refugee children, adolescents and parents integrate and manage the distress related to bereavement, trauma, discrimination and stress induced by the refugee experience.	Pearl Fernandes

Ms Pearl Fernandes

Pearl Fernandes is a clinical psychologist, with 10 years experience working with refugees and asylum seekers at STARTTS (Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors). She enjoys using creative approaches when working with clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
She has successfully trialled and implemented creative approaches when working with a traumatised population. Her most recent project has been the development of a therapeutic program ‘Jungle Tracks’. ‘Jungle Tracks’ is program that utilises a story telling approach in the treatment of traumatised adolescents and young children.
In addition to providing direct services to this client group, she provides clinical supervision and training to staff at STARTTS, students and intern psychologists and allied health professionals. She has also presented papers of her work at national and international conferences.