Working with families and wider systems in contexts of continuous and complex trauma: The case of Gaza
In this workshop, the presenters will share their ideas and experiences of collaborating with Palestinian mental health workers in Gaza and describe their evolving practices to support colleagues there, all of whom have suffered the same traumas as those they are helping.
AFSP member: £35
Non-member: £45
AFSP student member: £20
Online
Organiser
Association for Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
The presenters will describe some of the work currently being done to support children and families and to provide training.
The webinar will explore concepts such as ‘ethical loneliness’ and the effects of vast disparities of power. In this context the presenters will emphasise the importance of being informed and guided by those from within the community.
They will encourage discussion of systemic beliefs around power, racism and colonialism in this applied context. The ideas generated will hopefully be relevant to colleagues working in similar war-torn contexts.
Speakers
Gwyn Daniel is a systemic psychotherapist, trainer and writer whose career in the NHS has included working in child and adolescent and adult mental health services.
She has specialised in working with children in adversity, including families where a parent has mental health difficulties, where there is parental violence and where separated parents are involved in court disputes. She has written, co-written or edited 4 books and numerous professional articles.
Gwyn has been involved in collaborating with and advocating for mental health practitioners in Palestine and has written about the impacts on families of prolonged periods of military occupation and state violence.
She is a patron of the Palestine Trauma Centre, UK and consults regularly with their team of Mental Health Practitioners working in Gaza.
Danny McGowan is a family and systemic psychotherapist who has worked in child mental services for 25 years. He has co-edited 2 editions of Context magazine and delivered workshops at AFSP conferences with Hillsborough Families campaigners, on the subject of Class, and last year with Hind on ‘Palestinian Children’s Voices, the Not Yet Heard’.
Danny is a member of the Family Therapists for Palestine Group and is a workplace representative for Unite the Union in the NHS.
Hind Khalifeh is a Palestinian doctor, with 25 years’ experience of working as a psychiatrist in the NHS, including in adult and child and adolescent mental health services. She is currently working as a consultant perinatal psychiatrist, offering specialist treatment for women with moderate to severe perinatal mental illness and their infants and families.
Hind is a member of Psychiatrists for Palestine. She has been collaborating with and advocating for mental health professionals working in Palestine, in Gaza and the West Bank. She is co-organiser of a training programme for psychiatry trainee doctors based in Gaza.
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