7: Downloadable materials and further support

If you train social workers and would like to conduct parts of this training in face-to-face training sessions we have made available downloadble Word and PowerPoint documents.

Word downloads

PowerPoint downloads

Further training

In addition to the training provision, you might also find the following courses useful:

Other useful website resources

Further reading

‘Working with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ by Hadwin, Guizani and Singh in Introducing Social Work (SAGE), 2020.

Social work with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants: theory and skills for practice by Wroe, Larkin and Maglajlic (Jessica Kingsley Publishers), 2019.

Grant, L., and Kinman, G. (2014). ‘Emotional resilience in the helping professions and how it can be enhanced’ by Grant and Kinman in Health and Social Care Education, volume 3, pages 23–34.

Fenton (2019) Social Work for Lazy radicals: Relationship building, critical thinking and courage in practice by Fenton (Bloomsbury), 2019.

Acknowledgements

This free training program and the associated research was made possible from funding provided by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC – ES/S001980/1). We would also like to thank Dr. Deborah Hadwin for providing her social work expertise and providing feedback.

Authors

Sarah Crafter is a Professor in Cultural-Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling, at The Open University. Her work is broadly interested in young people’s migration experiences and how they impact on their everyday lives, particularly transitions to adulthood. Her work mostly falls along two strands: i) a focus a child language brokers, who are children and young people who translate and interpret for family members following migration and ii) a focus on the care of separated child migrants as the navigate the asylum-welfare nexus. Prof. Crafter is the lead author of Developmental transitions: Exploring stability and change through the lifespan (2019, Routledge).

Evangelia Prokopiou is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and lead for the Diversity, Community and Identity SIG of the Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Northampton. Her key area of teaching and research interest focuses on dialogical self theory; the impact of immigration and cultural change on identities, families and communities; and on the constructions of diverse, ‘non-normative’ childhoods. She is particularly interested in exploring the ways children and young people with multiple cultural affiliations construct and negotiate their identities in culturally diverse settings. This interest has led Evangelia to become involved in a number of projects exploring child language brokering in schools, young people’s experiences in supplementary schools and separated child migrants’ experiences of care and caring relationships.