This textbook provides theoretical and clinical knowledge needed by social workers and other practitioners involved in humanitarian emergency response. Social workers are well positioned to serve coordinating and leadership roles in this interdisciplinary field due to their holistic training. This book weaves together micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice into integrated social work practice. Its historical account of humanitarian emergencies, coverage of social work frameworks and principles, and review of existing best practices at the clinical, community, and policy levels ground the reader in a field of social work that requires consideration of historical frameworks alongside innovative responses to the complexity of humanitarian emergencies.
The contributors incorporate best practices as well as address gaps in awareness, knowledge, and skills that they have observed and studied worldwide. Some of the topics explored include:
- Social Work with Displaced Children, Women, LGBTQI+, Asylum Seekers
- Return and Reintegration of Displaced Populations and Reconstruction in Post-conflict Societies
- Culture, Trauma, and Loss: Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Clinical Social Work Practice with Forcibly Displaced Persons Grounded in Human Rights and Social Justice Principles
Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons is adoptable as a primary text for MSW and doctoral elective courses on global social work or international social work practice with persecuted and forcibly displaced people. This textbook is targeted to clinical social work or policy courses as well, and can be supplemental reading for required courses for migration and forced displacement majors. It is also useful for social workers or interdisciplinary practitioners working around the globe with displaced populations.
Nancy J. Murakami, DSW, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and an assistant professor at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. Dr. Murakami has a background in direct practice, supervision, and program development and management in the fields of trauma and refugee mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. She has designed and taught courses on social work practice with survivors of forced displacement, and she conducts trainings on trauma-informed care, social work practice with survivors of torture, working with interpreters, and practitioner wellbeing. She is technical advisor and clinical supervisor of the refugee psychosocial support program of Friends of Kisoro, a community-based organization in Uganda. She is co-editor of Trauma and Recovery on War's Border: A Guide for Global Health Workers, and Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons. Dr. Murakami holds an MSW from Columbia University and a DSW from New York University.
Mashura Akilova, PhD, MSW, is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Social Work at Columbia University. Her research, teaching and practice focus on the issues of global social work, child well-being and migration. She has worked on creating and strengthening social work and social service workforce in the Caucuses, Central Asia and Balkans. Her current research studies Central Asian migration to the United States and wellbeing of non-Syrian refugees in Turkey. She is co-editor of Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons. Dr. Akilova holds an MSW from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD from Columbia University.
