The 23rd free webinar of the Refugee Mental Health Resource Network (RMHRN) will take place on
Friday, April 1, 2022 from 12 Noon to 1:00 pm Eastern.
Ukrainian Immigrant Psychologist Witnessing the War and the Refugee Crisis:
Mental Health and Culturally Sensitive Intervention
Recent Russian aggression against Ukraine resulted not only in horrific violence against Ukrainians and their land, but also in unprecedented relocation of more than 3 million Ukrainian refugees (mostly children, women, and elderly) across the borders and more than 2 million internally displaced within a span of twenty days. The presentation will focus on direct witnessing by Dr. Oksana Yakushko, an American Ukrainian psychologist, of her family’s and her Ukrainian communities’ experience of the impact of war, including both international and internal refugee experiences. The presentation will highlight numerous traumatic influences and varied ways that individuals may respond to a sudden and terrorizing war. Implications for clinical practice, research, and advocacy for engagement with refugees will be addressed. Q and A will follow the presentation.
Oksana Yakushko, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor of clinical psychology in Santa Barbara, CA. Her initial scholarship was focused on immigration and xenophobia, including refugee experiences and human trafficking. Along with colleagues in Europe, she developed a scale of xenophobia, which has been used in numerous empirical investigations of attitudes toward immigrants. Her current work continues to focus on issues related to migration as well as historic impact of Western “sciences” propped up by prejudice, such as social Darwinism and eugenics. Dr. Yakushko is a Ukrainian immigrant with immediate and extended family and friends who reside in Ukraine. Elizabeth Carll, PhD, Chair RMHRN, will serve as the moderator.
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The Refugee Mental Health Resource Network (RMHRN), an APA Interdivisional Project and has been funded in part by APA CODAPAR grants. Cosponsoring/collaborating Divisions & SPAs include: Div. 56, 52, 38, 35, 7, 55, 34, 39, 42, 46, NYSPA, GPA, WSPA, DCPA
Elizabeth Carll, PhD
Founder & Chair, Refugee Mental Health Resource Network,
An APA Interdivisional Project
Tel: 631-754-2424