Course description

A module that addresses key elements of separation and loss for young people who are seeking asylum in the UK, those created by the initial crisis that caused them to flee, as well as those experienced on the journey and, shockingly, within the UK.  The nature of ‘family’ and ‘attachments’ are explored:  those we may consider family, who matter most to our sense of stability in the world, are not necessarily those recognised as such under the law.  

You will have continual access to this course for 12 full months.


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Outcomes

By taking this online course, you will:

  • Consider the age and nationality profile of young asylum seekers to the UK

  • Understand children and young people become separated from their families, and the traumatic impact of separatio

  • Recognise who unaccompanied children may have lost, and the importance of not making assumptions about who we mean by ‘family’

  • Recognise the importance of secondary attachment figures in the UK for lone asylum seeking children, and the unpredictable nature of who will take up this role

  • Understand how cumulative loss is created on the asylum seeking journey

Author

  • Andrea Perry

    Andrea Perry

    Andrea Perry is an integrative psychotherapist, consultant and trainer specialising in attachment, loss and trauma, a former Chair of the British Association of Dramatherapists and Chair of Conference at the Centre for Child Mental Health. She has written three books on procrastination and claustrophobia, and edited many titles on attachment especially within the schools context. She has worked for the International Family Tracing Service of the British Red Cross, and is also involved with RefugeeTales (Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group) and other services for asylum seekers and refugees.

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