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About STARTTS

Models for Group Work Using Art and Expressive Therapies with Newly Arrived Refugee Young People. About STARTTS. Our Mission : Facilitate the healing process & resource others Our Clients : Individuals & communities from refugee backgrounds now living in NSW. And service providers.

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About STARTTS

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  1. Models for Group Work Using Art and Expressive Therapies with Newly Arrived Refugee Young People

  2. AboutSTARTTS • OurMission: Facilitate the healing process & resource others • OurClients: Individuals & communities from refugee backgrounds now living in NSW. And service providers

  3. ImpactofRefugeeTrauma Refugee trauma often results in profound discontinuity and loss in all domains of young people’s lives: • Their feelings • Their thoughts • Their capacity to form relationships • Their ability to learn • Their future moral development • Their adjustment to life as adults (sense of self/bicultural identity)

  4. Therapeutic Principles of Group Work • Universality – shared experiences & feelings among group members • Altruism – a place where group members can help each other • Instillation of hope & imparting information • Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience • Development of socialising techniques • Imitative behaviour (modelling) & catharsis

  5. Benefits of an Art & Expressive Therapy Intervention • Reduce behavioural problems-art as an emotional outlet • Formation of adequate emotional response to trauma • Increase motivation • Improve self-identity • Increase socialisation through group awareness • Increase organisational skills

  6. About DRUMBEAT Therapeutic program that uses music to engage participants, teach social skills and build self-esteem

  7. About Dance to Heal Dance to Express helpful for rehabilitation of the Body provides vital tools for reconnection to the body and to the self

  8. About CapoeiraAngola • An Afro-Brazilian dance/martial art, its unique framework of empowerment • effective engagement with young people to increases resilience and to overcome trauma

  9. About Camps Aims to provide young people with specific activities in which they can have fun; explore their feelings; enhance coping skills; and increase resiliency, communication skills, social skills and self-esteem

  10. “The general goals for treatment are: to help feel stable and safe in themselves and with others; to work through and integrate the traumatic memories; and to assist in re-engaging fully in their lives and in relationships with others.” (Van der Kolk, MacFarlane & Alexander, 1996)

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