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Title: | Practical strategies for working with traumatised children from refugee backgrounds in early childhood settings | Contributor(s): | Lamb, Cherie (author) | Publication Date: | 2017 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22756 | Abstract: | Maryam, not her real name, drew alongside me because she wanted to tell me her story outside of the focus group setting. She said, 'I had to withdraw my son from child care because he wanted to kill himself'. When I expressed surprise she repeated that child care had made him 'upset and suicidal' and that he was 'cutting himself'. Maryam is a refugee from a Middle Eastern country who arrived in Australia with her nine-year-old daughter, Sarah, via a perilous boat journey after enduring unspeakable atrocities. On arrival they were incarcerated in an Australian offshore detention centre for several months while their claims for asylum were processed. She told me that parenting was 'very hard' under the 'horrendous' conditions they had endured inside the camp. Her son, who I will call Benjamin, was born after her release from detention and he was sitting alongside her, nonverbal, clingy and anxious. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Educating Young Children, 23(3), p. 20-23 | Publisher: | Early Childhood Teachers Association Inc | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1323-823X | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390401 Comparative and cross-cultural education 390499 Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified 390302 Early childhood education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 939903 Equity and Access to Education 930599 Education and Training Systems not elsewhere classified 930202 Teacher and Instructor Development |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160201 Equity and access to education 160303 Teacher and instructor development |
HERDC Category Description: | C3 Non-Refereed Article in a Professional Journal |
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