Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives

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Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives
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  2. Prerequisites & Facts
  3. Cost, Certificate & Degree
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What is the course about?

Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives
The course Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives is an online class provided by The University of Glasgow through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn how the principles of psychological well-being, communication and interpretation can benefit your work with refugees

Course description
  • Explore interdisciplinary approaches to working with refugees
  • 3 weeks
  • Combining principles of psychological well-being, intercultural communication, interpretation and conflict management, this course will help you to understand who refugees are and how you can support their integration in the receiving countries.
  • The basics about human migration, refugees and legal framework
  • Cultural diversity and interethnic relations
  • Socialisation, conflict resolution and social inclusion
  • Principles on psychological well-being and socio-emotional health in refugee cases. Strategies for the mediator to support the target group and their own self-care
  • Communication and interpreting in contexts of cultural mediation
  • The practice of cultural mediation in the reality of refugees
  • Discuss the legal, social and cultural grounding for the refugee’s integration in different European countries
  • Reflect critically on the process of intercultural communication and interpretation, in the reality of and in the work with refugees
  • Evaluate the idea of social integration, assessing ways in which cultural mediators could offer adequate support to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
  • Demonstrate awareness of principles of psychological well-being and socio-emotional health of refugees
  • Assess strategies for mediators to support refugees and attend to their own self-care
  • Explore the skills needed to work with refugees including group management, intercultural communication, and conflict negotiation
  • The course is open to all and will be of particular interest to those working with refugees in any capacity. It is aimed particularly, but not exclusively, at interpreters, NGO practitioners, volunteers, refugees, researchers, and students. There are no prior requirements to join this course.
  • While the Educators themselves aren’t available to facilitate this run, we encourage you to engage with other learners and there are opportunities to do this throughout the course.
  • The University of Glasgow
  • Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives

Course Topic

Goal Setting, Happiness, Personal Development

University, College, Institution

The University of Glasgow

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / The University of Glasgow you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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