Psychological Support for Workers on the Move (eBook, PDF)

Improving Global Staff Care
Redaktion: Thompson, Kate S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the psychological pressures faced by workers who migrate for short periods, exploring what it means to work in high stress environments, often on time limited contracts and with low levels of support, and how best to protect this kind of key worker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000855456
• Artikelnr.: 67414520

Autorenporträt

Kate S. Thompson, PhD, is a counselling psychologist with long experience supporting highly mobile clients including refugees in the UK, humanitarian staff and serving military personnel/veterans. Her key interests are in the impact of transition on identity, the social meaning of war and the use of community as a tool for healing.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Good fit' & righting the relationship - an exploration of employee &
organisational relationships in the international aid sector 2. Building
resilience among staff working internationally 3. Searching for security:
An attachment perspective on aid worker relationships 4. A sticking plaster
on a gaping wound: "Moral injury", stress and burn out in humanitarian aid
workers 5. Sharing family dilemmas for those working internationally 6.
Supporting grassroots aid workers and volunteers 7. Supporting those with
religious faith in the humanitarian sector: cultural and psychotherapeutic
considerations 8. Seafarers: 'They that go down to the sea in ships to do
business in great waters' 9. Supporting international contractors working
in aid and development contexts 10. Psychosocial support work with aid and
development staff following sexual trauma 11. Working with children and
young people whose families are working away from their home country 12.
Who's the client? Limitations and advantages of therapeutic work as a
psychological contractor for aid organisations 13. Meeting needs remotely -
online support for international staff