Overview
- Focuses on family therapy in the context of ongoing or recent humanitarian intervention
- Contains contributions from non-U.S. and U.S. nationals living and working outside of their country's borders
- Discusses basic principles for the design and delivery of family therapy and mental health and psychosocial support programming
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy (BRIEFSFAT)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Critical theory and family therapy
- Decolonizing approaches
- Displacement
- Family therapy
- Human rights based social work
- Humanitarian aid
- Humanitarian intervention
- International family therapy
- Knowledge transfer in family therapy
- Low-resource settings
- Post-conflict countries
- Rebuilding after war
- Refugees
- War and conflict
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laurie L. Charlés, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and qualitative researcher based in the U.S., Assistant Professor in the Family Couple & Individual Psychotherapy (FCIP) program at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, USA., and subject matter expert/trainer in family therapy with two psychotherapeutic interventions courses sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) in MENA. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Togo, 1999-2001), Dr. Charlés earned a PhD in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University (1999) and a M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (2013). She has been the recipient of numerous research grants including the Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholar Award (2010-2011) at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Gameela Samarasinghe, PhD, is a clinical psychologist by training and is an Associate Professor in Psychology in the Department of Sociology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She initiated the design of and introduced the Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s in Counselling and Psychosocial Support at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo. She is the Coordinator of both programs. She was a member of the international research team on “Trauma, Peace building and Development”, run from the University of Ulster. She has written extensively on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in Sri Lanka. She has been awarded many fellowships and has been the recipient of research grants including the Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholar Award (2004 – 2005) at Boston University and the Fulbright Advanced Research Award (2013 – 2014) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Therapy in Global Humanitarian Contexts
Book Subtitle: Voices and Issues from the Field
Editors: Laurie L. Charlés, Gameela Samarasinghe
Series Title: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39271-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: American Family Therapy Academy 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39269-1Published: 23 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39271-4Published: 15 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2196-5528
Series E-ISSN: 2196-5536
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 138
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, Human Rights