This Healthy Development Adelaide (University of Adelaide) Symposium is co-hosted with UniSA Peace, Defence and Security Research and Innovation Cluster.
Refugee trauma can be across many cultures and there is much diversity with regard to idioms of distress causing a change in behaviour and mental well being. Refugee trauma is included in Australia's National Mental Health Plan, yet the extent to which it is recognised, researched or discussed in an interdisciplinary context is perhaps less than we would expect, even in places where there resides a diverse population of people from refugee background.
This one day symposium will consider the critical themes, debates and research possibilities related to refugee trauma for young people, with implications for later life, using a range of illustrative case study, clinical practice and research presentations.
Keynote speakers include:
Mr Hieu Van Le, Lieutenant Governor of South Australia Chairman, South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission
Dr Ida Kaplan, Direct Services Manager, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture.
