Conceptualising Our Work with Families Affected by Refugee Trauma through the Application of Strategic Family Principles

Certificate of Completion

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Course Description

This important Clinical Master Class webinar will give you insight into how traumatic events and losses in the context of organised violence can have a significant impact on family relationships and the ability for families to support each other while rebuilding their lives in Australia.

Recording 1: From Elisabeth Shaw, a Psychologist and CEO of Relationships Australia (NSW), you will learn about strategic family therapy principles, case planning and making good referrals. She will discuss tools and techniques that can bring the broader social network of the client into the conversation, so as to see their suffering in context, and to assist them to understand themselves and their behaviour better. Recording link: https://youtu.be/sMMr8KTqbio

Recording 2: Haseeba Shamal, a STARTTS Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Supervisor, will take you through a real-life example of how the family dynamics of a Palestinian family from Gaza were strengthened using key strategic family therapy principles such as therapeutic goals, family hierarchy, matching, reframing, and through the use of self to establish a strong therapeutic relationship. Recording link: https://youtu.be/m_TIPP3pUCg

Recording 3: The Q&A panel discussion is facilitated by STARTTS’ CEO and Clinical Psychologist, Jorge Aroche. You will come away with many family therapy tools to assist families impacted by trauma. Recording link: https://youtu.be/NBOHNbJ1_Bg

This webinar was recorded on 26 March 2025. © STARTTS

Duration: 87 minutes