Jordan

in partnership with the SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY

In February 2016, we delivered a level 2 course in Jordan, home to over half a million Syrian refugees. Here we worked with the Syrian American Medical Society at its mental health centre in Irbid. We successfully trained 16 people from a variety of organisations, many working in the refugee camps located in the north of Jordan. We were delighted that one of the psychologists trained in Turkey in 2014 was able to join the training to tell everyone about his experience of using CATT successfully with children in Amman.

The Syrian Conflict

Since the beginning of the national uprising in 2011, conflict in Syria has escalated and nearly half a million people have lost their lives, including over 50,000 children.

More than half of Syria’s population have fled their homes. About 5.1 million Syrians are refugees who’ve left the country across borders to Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, and 6.3 million are internally displaced within Syria.

Of those displaced, half are children. These children are at risk of becoming malnourished, physically sick, abused, or exploited, and are extremely likely to have experienced trauma. Many have been out of education for many years, and are being called a ‘lost generation’.

The number of refugees created by the Syrian conflict shows no sign of slowing down.