Psychosocial support for adolescent refugees and migrants in schools.
Interventions promoting social support and social cohesion
We implement preventive psychosocial interventions in a school setting to promote adolescents’ mental and social well-being.
RefugeesWellSchool is a European funded Horizon2020 project carried out by seven different partners in six European countries (Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the United Kingdom).
Team
Meet the team-
Antónia Tökés
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Lutine Pastoor
Collaborating with schools through interventions that work on social support and cohesion.
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To better understand the influence preventive programmes can have in a school context the RefugeesWellSchool project evaluates the effectiveness and implementation processes of a set of school-based interventions for adolescent newcomers.
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An important aspect of the RefugeesWellSchool project is the dissemination of the materials and results of the implementation and study.
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Publications
Research article: COVID-19 school closures and how teachers care for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
COVID-19 presented with major challenges in education as schools were closed and interrupted practices in the classroom. RWS researchers set out to understand the challenges teachers faced during school closures when trying to stay in contact and support migrant and refugee learners. Teachers experienced many difficulties due to barriers learners faced with language and accessing […]
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Research article: Teachers’ caring practices for migrant and refugee youth in Denmark
The Danish team was interested in knowing how teachers’ care for their refugee and migrant learners at school. They found that teachers in their study made remarkable efforts to care, not only related to language teaching-learning. However, these teachers also often felt less prepared to respond to the complex psychosocial needs of migrant and refugee […]
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Research article: on the role of time and space in migrant and refugee adolescents’ caring practices at Danish schools
The Danish team explored newcomer refugee and immigrant adolescents’ caring practices in two classrooms for newcomers in Danish schools. The team found that time and space were important elements in shaping newcomers’ caring practices. RWS Denmark puts forward a novel conceptual approach to understanding school-based support for newcomer youth, and argues that newcomers’ wellbeing must […]
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RWS teams busy at conferences – List of presentations
The RWS teams have been busy going around in the virtual world and talk to researchers and professionals about our school-based interventions. Find here the full list of our presentations. If you find them interesting and want to know more, drop us an email on hello@refugeeswellschool.org ! Peltonen, K. (2020): Pakolaislasten ja -nuorten mielenterveys. The […]
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The Finnish team discusses sense of security, trauma, crisis and disaster
Finnish RWS researchers, Raija-Leena Punamäki and Kirsi Peltonen participated in the 2nd International Symposium on Safety and Security Research, on 10th September 2020. Researchers from different fields of psychology in Finland got together on Zoom to discuss this year’s topic, Global Disruptions and Everyday Experiences. Raija-Leena and Kirsi talked about the RWS psychosocial interventions, and how […]
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UK team presents findings on migration and wellbeing
The UK team has been busy spreading the word of RefugeesWellSchool and telling the public about preliminary findings. In July 2019, RWS UK researcher Emma Soye presented her doctoral research as part of a symposium on migration and wellbeing at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing (CIRW), University of Sussex. The symposium was […]