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Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry
BookHuman beings have been migrant for millennia. Reasons for migration vary from economic, financial, and educational reasons to persecution on religious or other discriminations. Push and pull factors for migration can produce inordinate amount of stress on...
Psychological morbidity among forcibly displaced children-a literature review
Irish Journal of Medical Science - Journal ArticleIn 2018, nearly 75 million people were displaced from their place of origin of which 20.4 million are considered as refugees. Children constitute over half of this population. A review of the currently available literature regarding the psychological impa...
Primary care management of non-English-speaking refugees who have experienced trauma: A clinical review
JAMA - Journal ArticleRefugees are a vulnerable class of immigrants who have fled their countries, typically following war, violence, or natural disaster, and who have frequently experienced trauma. In primary care, engaging refugees to develop a positive therapeutic relations...
Mental Health Screening Approaches for Resettling Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Scoping Review
International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health - Journal ArticleRefugees and asylum seekers often face delayed mental health diagnoses, treatment, and care. COVID-19 has exacerbated these issues. Delays in diagnosis and care can reduce the impact of resettlement services and may lead to poor long-term outcomes. This s...
Mental Health of Refugees and Torture Survivors: A Critical Review of Prevalence, Predictors, and Integrated Care
International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health - Journal ArticleCivilian war trauma and torture rank among the most traumatic life experiences; exposure to such experiences is pervasive in nations experiencing both internal and external conflict. This has led to a high volume of refugees resettling throughout the worl...
Gender and offender status predicting treatment success in refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD
European Journal of Psychotraumatology - Journal ArticleCurrent knowledge is limited regarding patient characteristics related to treatment outcome of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) in refugees and asylum seekers.|Gender, torture status, offender status, level of anger, and level of depression were inve...
Evidence-based psychological interventions for adult survivors of torture and trauma: A 30-year review
Transcultural Psychiatry - Journal ArticleIn this paper we review research evidence on psychosocial interventions for adult survivors of torture and trauma. We identified 40 studies from 1980 to 2010 that investigated interventions for adult survivors of torture and trauma. Population subtypes in...
Determining Physical and Mental Health Conditions Present in Older Adult Refugees: A Mini-Review
Gerontology - Journal ArticleIn 2017, there were over 65 million displaced persons at the global level, with approximately 23 million of these people living as refugees around the world. In this same year, the US resettled 53,716 refugees, with the State of Utah receiving 954 of thos...
Crossing borders: a systematic review identifying potential mechanisms of intergenerational trauma transmission in asylum-seeking and refugee families
European journal of psychotraumatology - Journal ArticleBackground: As displacement and forced migration continue to exhibit global growth trends, new and surviving generations of children are being born and spending their formative years in host countries. Refugee children who have not been exposed to traumat...
Children and war: Current understandings and future directions
Public Health Nursing - Journal ArticleDuring the last decade, the number of children whose lives have been disrupted by war, oppression, terror, and other forms of conflict has grown tremendously. When the United Nations High Commission for Refugees was first established during the 1950s to p...