To this date there are 14 major armed conflicts, four of which are defined as war. Every day several people come to Sweden as asylum  seekers and refugees looking for a residence permit in Sweden. This paper is about the children who receive a residence permit in Sweden and attend Swedish schools. Many of these children have experienced trauma – damage to the psyche after a traumatic experience.

From two qualitative interviews of a principal and a counselor at a school in Järfälla municipality, and three teachers at the same school, I studied what trauma management at this school looks like. Furthermore, the paper seeks to examine whether there is collaboration between the school and BUP (child and youth psychiatry) for the students who need psychological support to overcome their problems.

The school in my study has no cooperation with BUP, but did have previously. This cooperation was shut down because of the cost cuts. The school in my study has no real trauma management but will send a referral to the BUP after consultation with parents if such a need is believed to exist.

The essay is written with a crisis of educational perspective, which means that I spent part of my theory of teaching crisis in the analysis. The crisis pedagogical approach is designed to give teachers the opportunity to help students with trauma to bring new educational opportunities out of a crisis or a trauma. The conclusion from this perspective was that a crisis educational plan is difficult to use for newly arrived refugee children because they rarely have the ability to communicate so well that a crisis educational plan would work.