Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships

About

Lucia De Haene obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Sciences in 2009 at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) with a dissertation on refugee parent-child relationships. She is Assistant Professor affiliated to the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (KU Leuven) and Associate Professor (tenured) from 2018 onwards. She is involved in research on the psychosocial impact of forced migration in refugee family relationships and clinical research on transcultural trauma care with refugee families. Lucia coordinates a family and community therapeutic service in refugee trauma care at the Faculty's Clinical Centre PraxisP. She is licensed family therapist (Postgraduate Degree in Family Therapy Studies KU Leuven) involved in training family therapy and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program Psychotraumatherapy (KU Leuven). Cécile Rousseau is professor of psychiatry at McGill University and Scientific Director of the Research Institute on Health and Cultural Diversity SHERPA. She coordinates an academic mental health care centre (CLSC Parc Extension) where she leads and supervises a clinical team in working with immigrant and refugee families in close collaboration with primary care settings. She has worked extensively with immigrant and refugee communities developing specific school based interventions and leading policy-oriented research. Presently her research focuses on the evaluation of collaborative mental health care models for youth in multiethnic neighborhoods and intervention and prevention programs to address youth radicalization.