This includes:

• Staff in communal accommodations and migration counseling centers
• Integration assistants and guides
• Staff in educational institutions and authorities
• Actors in regular psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services and other medical care facilities
• Interpreters

Main topics that we cover:

• Strategies for dealing with mentally distressed or ill refugees
• Specifics of working with unaccompanied refugee minors
• Understanding of health and illness
• Fundamental knowledge of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Intercultural aspects in psychotherapy
• Self-care when working with refugees
• Language and cultural mediation in the healthcare sector
• Language and cultural mediation in therapeutic settings for psychologists/therapists/interpreters

These are one-time events (lectures/consultations/workshops), but we can also provide process support according to your wishes and needs. Depending on the request, we consider training sessions of at least 3 hours as professionally meaningful. The training sessions are also available on-site, meaning we are happy to come to you. At least 5 participants should express interest in our offering.