This webinar, presented on July 19, 2017, is part of the National Capacity Building Project’s series of webinars supporting programs that serve torture survivors.
Description:
Group interventions can have a number of benefits for organizations providing services to survivors of torture and their clients, but can also present unique challenges. For many organizations the ability to extend their work with survivors of torture through community-based organizations may be a useful approach. Using a consultative model, this two-part webinar series will look at what SoT programs can do to create their own group interventions, as well as working effectively with community–based organizations to facilitate interventions in the larger community. We will examine what kind of consultative oversight may work for your organization and how distance supervision can facilitate these group endeavors.
In the first session our experts will discuss the best practices in providing group work with survivors of torture in both an organization-based and community-based setting.
In the second session we will look how these interventions take place in real world setting; including the challenges and pitfalls. We will invite discussion from the treatment community and elicit the participants’ own experiences.
Objectives
After attending this webinar participants will be able to:
- Identify potential benefits associated with engaging community-based organizations and interventions in their group work with survivors of torture.
- Cite key points and best practices in providing group work to survivors of torture.
- Identify the essential components of distance supervision.
- Discuss successes and challenges experienced in one particular group iteration.
Presenters
Hawthorne Smith
Clinical Director
Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Smith_Group_Interventions_-_NCB_May_2017.pdf
James Lavelle
Co-Founder
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT)
Cambride, MA
Lavell_Health_Promotion.pdf
Resources
Recommended pre-session reading:
- Group treatment for survivors of torture and severe violence: A literature review. From the journal Torture, vol. 26. Number1,2016 Group_Treatment_for_Survivors_of_Torture_and_Severe_Violence_A_Literature_Review.pdf
- Yelom, I. & Molyn Leszcz, M. (2005) The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books.
- Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture Orientation Group; 4-Week Group Therapy Manual for Clinicians Version 3.0 PSOT%2BOrientation%2BGroup%2B4%2Bweek%2Bmanual%2Bversion%2B3_0.pdf
- Sarah Y. Berkson, MD*, Svang Tor*, Richard Mollica, MD, MAR*, James Lavelle, LCSW*, Carol Cosenza, MSW*, (2014) Journal Torture, Vol 24, Number 1. An Innovative Model of Culturally Tailored Health Promotion Groups for Cambodian Survivors of Torture
References
- World Health Organization. Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health. 2003. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs385/en/
- McGlynn EA, et al. The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003; 348(26):2635–2645
- WHO Physical activity Fact sheet http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs385/en/