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Next up we have Prof Cornelius Katona (from @HelenBamber) and Dr Piyal Sen - @piyal_sen talking about Developments in mental healthcare for asylum seekers and refugees in Western countries-the science and the politics: an international perspective #RCPsychIC

Addressing systematic racism is so important #RCPsychIC

"Working around trauma rather than through trauma"

As targeting trauma can be seen as violence in some cultures

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Empathy: Directionality of gift
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"Neutrality can be a form of abandonment"

Rachel Kronick

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Refugees and migrants - Our first duty is to protect from harm rather than straight into psychiatric care

Analogy: to give clean drinking water before anything else

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Welcoming David Kinzie

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PTSD and depression can be quite common

Our approach is not trauma focussed, treatments are shown here #RCPsychIC

10-15% of our refugee and asylum seekers population have psychosis in America

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Welcome Piyal Sen - @piyal_sen

Who will talk about asylum in the UK

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Ensuring that asylum seekers/refugees are involved and seeing it from their perspective and how they feel - what are their survival skills, prior experiences etc

Then it will lead to therapeutic interaction

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CBT and EMDR have been used to help with refugee and asylum seekers and are becoming increasingly used

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High incidence of PTSD, depression and anxiety from people in detention centres. The UK holds people in detention for the longest out of any European country

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Politics stats on refugees and asylum seekers

Windrush: a lot of people deported back to the Caribbean because they couldn't prove their settlement in the UK which led the government to review its policies

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New plans for immigration in the UK (2021)

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Thank you to all our speakers some very deep and saddening stories but also very informative.

Many thanks to:
Dr Rachel Kronick
Prof Cornelius Katona (from @HelenBamber)
Dr Piyal Sen - @piyal_sen
David Kinzie

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