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Thinking Psychodynamically with Refugee Children and their Families.
Mr Peter F Blake, Dr Nooria Mehraby

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Peter Blake, a Clinical Psychologist and Tavistock trained child psychotherapists, is interviewed by Nooria Mehraby on his experiences of supervising STARTTS workers who work with children and families. The interview explores how a psychodynamic way of thinking can be used in work with refugees. The importance of understanding the child's inner world, and his or her understanding or interpretation of the traumatic events they have experienced is stressed. There is a discussion of what modifications to psychotherapy techniques are required when working with such children. The need for creating a safe and non traumatic atmosphere that can allow the child to play, with a minimum of interpretations is highlighted. Similarly a non intrusive way of working with parents is described.

Interview recorded at STARTTS, Sydney, in April 2008.

Peter F Blake

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	Thinking Psychodynamically with Refugee Children and their Families.	Peter F Blake	43'47
	Thinking Psychodynamically with Refugee Children and their Families.	Peter F Blake

Mr Peter F Blake

Peter Blake is a clinical psychologist and a Tavistock trained child psychotherapist. He has worked in community health centres and in private practice over the last 35 years. He was the President of the Child Psychoanalytic Foundation, a charity organisation, founded to promote psychoanalytic thinking about children and families to the professional and non-professional community. He is currently Chairperson of the Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. His book, "Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy" has been published in 2008 and is the only book on this subject in Australia.

Dr Nooria Mehraby

Nooria Mehraby is a senior clinician at the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS). Herself a refugee, Nooria has more than 20 years work experience with refugees both overseas and in Australia.

Nooria graduated as a medical doctor from Kabul University Afghanistan in 1983. She worked as a lecturer at Kabul University, concurrently completing her Masters of Pathology (1986), and as a general practitioner until 1987 when she and her family were forced to flee to Pakistan. She arrived in Australia in 1993.

In 1995 Nooria was employed by STARTTS as a bi-cultural counsellor for the Middle Eastern communities. As a trained Trauma Counsellor she continued her education and obtained a Masters of Counselling degree with distinction from University of Western Sydney.
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Nooria is an experienced national and international conference speaker and is the author of multiple publications (including textbook contributions) on refugee trauma, cross cultural counselling and working with children. Nooria is also the editor of Interface Column; a Consideration of Difference, in the National Journal of Psychotherapy in Australia. Her Particular interest is on developing cross-cultural therapeutic interventions with Refugees.