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Working with Children and FamiliesPrinciples of Care in Working with Traumatized Refugee Youth and Goals for Family Work A guide to working with young people who are refugees. Refugee Children and Families: Experiences Refugee Children and Adolescent's common experiences prior to arrival, stress on refugee families in the U.S., and the losses experienced by refugee families. Working with Refugee and Immigrant Children – The Child Client When relating to a child client, imagine how you would feel in a new country, with strangers asking very personal questions about yourself and your family. For a child, or even an adult, this can be a very threatening experience. This is particularly true if a child has gone through a traumatic event which has made him less trusting of strangers or adults in general. Guidelines for Providers Working with Interpreters Working with an interpreter requires a set of skills, as does interpreting itself. Unfortunately, scenarios unfold all too often in which miscommunication occurs due to lack of training in such skills, either on the part of the service provider, the interpreter, or both. |