Dr Elsa CHENAUD is a medical ethno-anthropologist and director of the CSI, specialising in transcultural migration issues:
Advice on the rights and residence of foreign nationals: regularisation, nationality and family reunification.
Intra-family conflict management: Divorce, difficult separation, marital counselling, family, criminal and intercultural mediation...
Clinique des ethnies (Ethnic Clinic), is involved in mental health, treating psychopathologies and psychotherapies.
It acts on the psycho-trauma caused by complex migratory journeys.
As a third party, the firm carries out forensic appraisals and psychosocial investigations for the Court of Appeal.
- Psychosocial expertise at the Court of Appeal
- Dr en Anthropologie sociale transculturelle.
- Ph.D in social work and criminology Université Laval (Quebec)
- Researcher in intercultural family conflict studies EHESS/MAF/CNRS/Ulaval/EdiQ
REPRESENTATIONS IN INTERCULTURAL MEDIATION
This book is the result of fifteen years' experience in the field, through various assignments. It is driven by my interest in the epistemology of the social sciences, in particular ethno-anthropology, which led to the completion of this research.
Why this choice of domino, transcultural or intercultural pairs?
When you're in love, nothing counts, and in the event of conflict, everything counts... In mixed marriages, it's the attraction of the ‘mystery’ of the other, because they are different from you, their language, their skin, their customs are fascinating... A richness too for their child, who speaks 2 languages, who feels at ease in 2 countries, who learns the rites of their grandparents. Sometimes even practising 2 religions. But when the couple breaks up, it's the collapse of 2 cultures, sometimes 2 civilisations.
Skills
Family reunification - Reunifications - Naturalisation
Marriage - Divorce - Separation - Child placement - Family mediation - Criminal -Judicial and intercultural
- Ethnic therapies and transculturality
- Psychopathologies and Social and Cultural Representations
- The psycho-traumatic effects of migration
PSYCHO-SOCIAL SECTOR
- Working with families from Mayotte, Africa, North Africa &.
Eastern Europe:
- Explain the process of cultural change and how it is managed... !
Other people's parenting :
- The role and place of parents, children, the extended family..., the
intra-family relationships... and rituals...!
- Abuse, the culturally unspoken and representations ...
- Unaccompanied minors: the transition to adulthood
MEDICAL SECTOR
The culture of ‘others’:
- Explain how illness is represented: causes, beliefs, etc
madness...!
- The role of the carer and beliefs, the marabout...
- The management of madness and mental illness,
- Managing grief and dealing with death, taboos.
- Nutrition and prescription...
Psychosocial risks (PSR) represent a major challenge for the mental health of employees and the performance of companies. This system is a legal obligation for most companies.
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