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‘Strengths for the Journey’ intervention gives hope to children in refugee camps

A paper collage of colourful butterflies made during the project
A paper collage of colourful butterflies made during the programme

Dr Sevasti Foka

Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Director of Graduate Employment and Opportunities

More than half a million child refugees have reached Greece by sea since 2014. As a volunteer counsellor in refugee camps, Dr Foka identified an urgent need for mental health interventions for these children, many of whom had suffered trauma.


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Select Research Feature from the list of content types and fill out relevant fields. The following fields should be populated for both Research Features and Case Studies:

  • Name: give the content type a name which will help you remember what it contains. This won't appear on the public webpage, only in T4.
  • Heading: add heading/title which will appear in the blue box.  Character limit: 80Add heading/title which will appear in the blue box.  Character limit: 80
  • Image - 1000x622, Image - 800x498, Image - 600x373, Image - 400x249: provide a media link to the image underneath the heading - you should upload the 1000x622px image to the media library then create variants for the other 3 sizes
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  • Introduction: add introductory text.  Character limit: 500
  • Date: enter a date

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For Research Features, add a Research Org Column Container and up to 3 Column Items for associated Schools, Insititutes and Research Centres. You should also add a News Listing - Blocks to list the three latest news stories from the associated School or Institute.

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