Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives

Explore interdisciplinary approaches to working with refugees

Refugees are a diverse group, speaking many languages and of varied religions and ethnicities. This course acknowledges that skills requirements are changing rapidly and offers training for those working in this area.

Combining principles of psychological well-being, intercultural communication, interpretation and conflict management, this course will help you to understand who refugees are and how you can support their integration in the receiving countries.

The course is open to all and will be of particular interest to those working with refugees in any capacity. It is aimed particularly, but not exclusively, at interpreters, NGO practitioners, volunteers, refugees, researchers, and students. There are no prior requirements to join this course.

While the Educators themselves aren’t available to facilitate this run, we encourage you to engage with other learners and there are opportunities to do this throughout the course.

• Refugees’ definition, journey and intercultural relations
• Introduction
• Refugee's journey form country of origin to receiving country
• Culture and intercultural relations
• Summary
• Psychological well-being of both refugees and practitioners, social integration of refugees
• Introduction to integration and well-being of refugees
• Social integration
• Well-being of refugees and practitioners
• Conclusion
• Intercultural communication and mediation
• Introduction
• Stereotyping, prejudice and language
• Cultural mediation
• Conclusion