Before developing a career in Higher Education, Selam worked for many years as a Systemic Psychotherapist in various voluntary and statutory services including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). An area of particular interest in her career thus far has been working with refugees and particularly working with unaccompanied refugee children with a specific focus on the impacts of war and displacement trauma.
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Qualifications
- BSc. (University of Westminster),
- MSc. (University of London, Birkbeck College),
- PhD (Tilburg University).
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Memberships
UKCPAFT
Research
Main research interest in trauma and specifically the impact of war and migration trauma with specific focus on the delivery of trauma support in emergency contexts of low resource and high traumatic stress.
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Research and publications
- Kidane, S (2001a) Food, Shelter and Half a Chance. Assessing the needs of unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children. BAAF. London
- Kidane, S (2001b) I did not choose to come here. Listening to refugee children. BAAF. London
- Kidane, S & Amarena, P. (2004) Fostering unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children. A training course for foster carers. BAAF. London,
- Kidane, S. (2015). Deserts high seas and hope. In Van Reisen, M. (ed.), Women’s Leadership in Peace Building Conflict, Community and Care (pp. 289–300). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
- Kidane, S. (2016). Refugee community radio: Baseline study, Sudan and Ethiopia. Tilburg University, September 2016.
- Kidane, S., & Van Reisen, M. (2017). Collective trauma from Sinai trafficking: A blow to the fabric of the Eritrean society. In Van Reisen, M. & Mawere, M. (eds), The Ongoing Tragedy of the Trade in Refugees from Eritrea (pp. 318–347). Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG.
- Kidane, S. (2021). Trauma, Collective Trauma and Refugee Trajectories in the Digital Era: Development of the Trauma Recovery Understanding SelfHelp Therapy (TRUST). Langaa RPCIG.
