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University of Essex MA Refugee Care
University of Essex

MA Refugee Care

Colchester, United Kingdom

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    About: The MA Refugee Care program focuses on understanding the complexities of refugee situations and the support systems in place. Students explore the social, political, and psychological aspects of refugee care, helping to develop strategies for effective support and intervention. The course typically spans one year for full-time students and two years for part-time students.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in various fields, including refugee support services, non-profit organizations, international aid agencies, and government policy-making. Roles may include caseworker, policy advisor, or program coordinator, all aimed at enhancing the quality of life for refugees.

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MA Refugee Care

This unique course brings together people from diverse walks of life and parts of the globe to explore how we can care for refugees more effectively. Through lively seminar discussion we unpack refugee experiences as multi-dimensional and complex, and explore psychosocial perspectives and different types of intervention and activism. We discuss how we may become more therapeutic in our work with refugees, beyond merely offering psychotherapy. Through our course, you gain skills in challenging negative and limiting stereotypes of asylum seekers and refugees as traumatised, passive recipients of help. You also gain new insight into effective humanitarian work with refugees and have a special opportunity to visit an Asylum Tribunal and learn from judges about how the UK asylum system operates. This Program is closely associated with Centre for Trauma Asylum and Refugees.

Using an innovative twin-site Program, our course staff are made up from the multidisciplinary practitioner expertise of the Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies Department and the therapeutic provision of the Tavistock and Portman Clinic. Two modules are delivered on Monday afternoons and evenings at the Tavistock Clinic in London and four modules are delivered on Tuesdays at the University of Essex (Colchester campus). Whilst full-time students attend the course on both sites, part-time students attend modules at the Tavistock Clinic in London in year 1 and at Colchester in year 2. You will also have guest speakers who are activists, academics and world experts in the field.

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