ABSTRACT
The war of 1998/1999 led to thousands of Kosovo Albanians fleeing Kosovo or being internally displaced. The authors of this chapter all work at Kosova Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT), which was established in response to the impact of conflict and torture on families and communities. KRCT’s role expanded to working with the asylum-seeking population in 2012, and KRCT now deliver a groupwork programme in two asylum centres in Kosovo.
The chapter describes the post-conflict context in which KRCT delivers all its services and how they have adapted these to the asylum centre setting. It shares the team’s experience of co-designing a groupwork programme alongside people seeking asylum that aims to improve their mental and physical well-being. The chapter describes a range of activity-based groupwork and its impact. It explores how groupwork and group activities have enabled the clinical team to identify people in need of psychological treatment as well as enhancing opportunities for the team to offer rehabilitation and support to a larger group of people who are often still in the midst of flight.
