Seeking Asylum and Mental Health

Chris Maloney is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and General Practitioner. He worked as a GP with people seeking asylum for many years, and has been an expert witness in asylum cases since 2003. He is a co-author of Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (2nd edition), together with John Ballatt and Penny Campling (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Julia Nelki is a child psychiatrist and family therapist. She has set up services for families and unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Liverpool, is a trustee of a Refugee charity, and wrote medicolegal reports in asylum cases for twenty-five years. She now works with the Refugee Resilience Collective offering support to volunteers working with refugees. She has authored many peer reviewed publications and Villa Russo: A Jewish Story (Offizin Verlag 2022). Alison Summers is a general psychiatrist and psychodynamic psychotherapist. She has worked with people seeking asylum since 2008 as a psychotherapist and more recently a medico-legal report writer. She is a board member and medical report writer for Torture ID, and works with people seeking asylum that live in her local community.

1. Why do people seek asylum? The global context; Rukyya Hassan; 2. Seeking Asylum in the UK; Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Jonathan Kazembe, Jo Miller and Karin Oliver; 3. Seeking asylum and mental health Norma McKinnon and Chris Maloney; 4. Access to mental health care Alison Summers, Norma McKinnon and Jo Miller; 5. Assessing mental health needs Julia Nelki and Piyal Sen; 6. Interpreting assessment findings Chris Maloney and Cornelius Katona; 7. Formulation and diagnosis Alison Summers; 8. Common diagnoses; Piyal Sen, Alison Summers and Chris Maloney; 9. Intervention – the essentials Alison Summers and Chris Maloney; 10. Specific interventions Piyal Sen, Grace Crowley, Chris Maloney and Alison Summers; 11. Children families and young people Veronika Dobler and Julia Nelki; 12. Records and reports Janine Bonnet and Beate Dasarathy; 13. Improving mental health services Alison Summers, Philomène Uwamaliya, Jude Boyles and Helen Pears; 14. Therapeutic complexity Renos Papadopoulos; 15. Working with people seeking asylum Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki and Alison Summer.