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Psychosocial Issues & Interventions for Refugees and Migrants (February 26-March 2nd, 2023)

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Country: Egypt
Organization: American University in Cairo
Start date: 26 Feb 2023
End date: 2 Mar 2023
Registration deadline: 7 Feb 2023

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) of The American University in Cairo (AUC) is offering the following Short Course

In a world where nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute as a result of conflict or persecution,” (UNHCR 2017), the crisis became an epidemic in catastrophic proportions. It is widely recognized that the face of this crisis and the refugee landscape has changed greatly over the last decade. Refugees are less often concentrated in the traditional camps, and more often are living in urban areas, especially large cities. This change in the landscape adds further psychosocial issues to consider, particularly, integration into communities and access to resources. Most of the guidelines and recommendations for psychosocial interventions are directed at those refugees living in camps, and it is recognized that this needs urgent addressing.

This course aims to bring those working with refugees and forced migrants together to develop a greater understanding of the needs, experiences, and psychosocial and mental health interventions available to this ever-growing and under-serviced population, with a particular focus on displaced individuals living in urban areas. Whilst many refugees have great resilience and cope effectively, others in more vulnerable situations are at increased risk of mental health and social problems. Those with existing mental health issues are at great risk of the worsening and prolonging of such issues, given the circumstances in which they find themselves and a lack of access to appropriate resources.

This course will also familiarize participants with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Guidelines on mental health and psychosocial support in emergency settings. The levels of interventions will be explored focusing on psychological first aid, basic counseling skills and the identification and sharing of referrals and cases.

About the Instructor:Kate Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Graduate Director of the Psychology Department at The American University in Cairo. She is a qualified clinical psychologist who completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University, in England. Ellis works predominantly with refugees and individuals who have experienced trauma. Her research focuses on the impact of violence and conflict, with a particular focus on young people, which was the focus of her first PhD awarded by the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Ellis is also the course coordinator of the Leadership in Mental Health course, Eastern Mediterranean Region, held annually at the AUC. The ‘Leadership in Mental Health’ course was developed in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), in order to provide training to mental health professionals in the region, with the aims of up-scaling mental health services and putting mental health on the national health agenda of under-resourced low economic status countries.

(Some modules of this course will be offered virtually. Physical presence during the modules that will take place face-face is a ‘MUST’. The Zoom link for the online modules will be provided by the instructor)

How to register

Eligibility for all courses

Requirements: The course is offered for graduate and postgraduate students, researchers as well as practitioners working in migration related fields. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.

All courses are offered face to face and will take place at AUC’ Tahrir campus. The language of instruction is English with no translation facilities. As such, applicants must have a strong command of the English language. Each course will run for 5 days from 9.30 am until 4.30 pm (Cairo Local Time) with an hour break.

Interested applicants can apply for one course or for the three courses.

Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course.

Application Information:

· The application form can be accessed through the following link

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nyEZIL-UDyTFZ8nUFz2z6gHWL0LkoP_zS4Xaxd_0tOY/edit

· Applicants may apply to and be accepted in all courses.

Please do not hesitate to contact cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu if you have any questions.
Applicants accepted for each course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.


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