Family rehabilitation
The family team at RCT helps families in which several or all family members have physical, psychological and social problems resulting from torture, organized violence, abuse, war experiences and exile.
When one or more members of a family have been subjected
to torture and violence, this affects both children and adults in
the family. Parents living with physical and psychological sequelae
of torture and separation from their original family may have
difficulties meeting the needs of their children. Consequently
children are often given too much responsibility in the family.
Children are very aware of how their parents and siblings cope, and
this pressure may cause psychosomatic symptoms, sleep problems,
aggressive or introverted behavior, concentration and learning
difficulties, school phobia, enuresis, encopresis (incontinent for
urine and feces) and identity problems.
The family team consists of a physician, physiotherapist,
social worker, psychologist and family therapist. The team works
closely to help adults and children in the family. Psychologist and
family therapist works with the entire family. The parents also
receive individual treatment and as well as receive help and
guidance from a social worker. When needed, the parents will be
offered individual psychotherapy.
The treatment aims at clarifying the specific family's difficulties
and resources, and the parents' individual needs for treatment.
Common to the team is that within each thematic area, the team
focuses on the entire family situation seen in a systemic
perspective. As part of the treatment, network meetings where all
public officials, who cooperate around the family, participate
together with parents and the RCT family team.