Trauma-Informed, Culturally Based Intervention: Integration of Neuroscience and Social Work in Supporting Refugees (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783032068347)

Nimo Bokore, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She previously taught at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson University, before joining Carleton University. Nimo has worked with community organizations and health centres that serve immigrants and refugees. Over the past fifteen years, she has taught undergraduate and graduate students, conducted both local and international research focused on refugees. She is a member of Carleton's "Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)," which promotes refugee protection and durable solutions. In the past six years, as the lead for student training at LERRN, she has taught and mentored graduate, postgraduate, and early-career researchers with a focus on cross-cultural and cross-border research methods.

In her research, Nimo, a survivor of war, concentrates on issues related to refugees, forced displacement, trauma, mental health, trauma transference, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and post-traumatic growth (PTG). She has led and co-led several research projects and published multiple papers, as well as two book chapters on war, trauma, and refugee resettlement: "Understanding the Refugee Experience in the Canadian Context". In: Sethi, B., Guruge, S., Csiernik, R. (eds.) Syrian Refugee Reflections on Canada's Sponsorship Programs. Palgrave, and "Forced Migration, Memory and Testimony". In: Meerzon, Y., Dean, D., McNeil, D. (Eds.) Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.