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A Family Therapist at Work in a Refugee Camp

A Family Therapist at Work in a Refugee Camp When asked by Nada Miocevic to write an article for the family therapy journal, I greatly appreciated the opportunity to discuss the issues that living and working in a Palestinian refugee community creates for me. Given this is a family therapy, non-political and professional resource, I felt compelled to write from a professional framework. Nice thought, but for me it seems to be a practical impossibility. I sit in my spare room where I have a plastic table I use as a desk. On the spare bed there is a pillow and a new pillowslip. Yesterday I was given this pillowslip, in sky blue; printed in Arabic is a statement on children’s rights. How apt — children here dream of children’s rights, they have limited opportunities to experience fairly basic rights — to play, to have a safe and healthy environment, and a hopeful future. Already my political impartiality has slipped out the small window, it drifts across the new highway that is being built two metres from my windows and those of many other camp families. There are no backyards here to act as a buffer between us and the new highway; it is our bedroom, kitchen http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

A Family Therapist at Work in a Refugee Camp

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
2007 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1375/anft.28.3.171
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Abstract

When asked by Nada Miocevic to write an article for the family therapy journal, I greatly appreciated the opportunity to discuss the issues that living and working in a Palestinian refugee community creates for me. Given this is a family therapy, non-political and professional resource, I felt compelled to write from a professional framework. Nice thought, but for me it seems to be a practical impossibility. I sit in my spare room where I have a plastic table I use as a desk. On the spare bed there is a pillow and a new pillowslip. Yesterday I was given this pillowslip, in sky blue; printed in Arabic is a statement on children’s rights. How apt — children here dream of children’s rights, they have limited opportunities to experience fairly basic rights — to play, to have a safe and healthy environment, and a hopeful future. Already my political impartiality has slipped out the small window, it drifts across the new highway that is being built two metres from my windows and those of many other camp families. There are no backyards here to act as a buffer between us and the new highway; it is our bedroom, kitchen

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 2007

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