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Refuge and resilience [electronic resource] : promoting resilience and mental health among resettled refugees and forced migrants / Laura Simich, Lisa Andermann, editors.

Simich, Laura, editor.; Andermann, Lisa, editor.
2014
RC451.4.E45
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Title
Refuge and resilience [electronic resource] : promoting resilience and mental health among resettled refugees and forced migrants / Laura Simich, Lisa Andermann, editors.
ISBN
9789400779228
9400779224
9789400779235 electronic book
9400779232 electronic book
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7923-5
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, [2014]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-7923-5 doi
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RC451.4.E45
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.2/0971
Summary
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology, ethics, nursing, psychiatric epidemiology, sociology and social work. Concern about immigrant mental health and social integration in resettlement countries has given rise to public debates that challenge scientists and policy makers to assemble facts and solutions to perceived problems. Since the 1980s, refugee mental health research has been productive, but arguably overly-focused on mental disorders and problems rather than solutions. Social science perspectives are not well integrated with medical science and treatment, which is at odds with social reality and underlies inadequacy and fragmentation in policy and service delivery. Research and practice that contribute to positive refugee mental health from Canada and the U.S. show that refugee mental health promotion must take into account social and policy contexts of immigration and health care in addition to medical issues. Despite traumatic experiences, most refugees are not mentally ill in a clinical sense, and those who do need medical attention often do not receive appropriate care. As recent studies show, social and cultural determinants of health may play a larger role in refugee health and adaptation outcomes than do biological factors or pre-migration experiences. This book's goal therefore is to broaden the refugee mental health field with social and cultural perspectives on resilience and mental health.
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Simich, Laura, editor.
Andermann, Lisa, editor.
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International perspectives on migration.
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Editor's introduction / Laura Simich
What is resilience and how does it relate to the refugee experience? Historical and theoretical perspectives / Wade E. Pickren
Social determinants of refugee mental health / Farah N. Mawani
The debate about trauma and psychosocial treatment for refugees / Clare Pain, Pushpa Kanagaratnam and Donald Payne
Reflections on using a cultural psychiatry approach to assessing and fortifying refugee resilience in Canada / Lisa Andermann
Personal and social forms of resilience : research with Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Canada / Morton Beiser
Social support in refugee resettlement / Miriam J. Stewart
Newcomer youth self-esteem : a community-based mixed methods study of Afghan, Columbian, Sudanese and Tamil Youth in Toronto, Canada / Nazilla Khanlou,Yogendra B. Shakya, Farah Islam and Emma Oudeh
Newcomer refugee youth as 'Resettlement Champions' for their families : vulnerability, resilience and empowerment / Yogendra B. Shakya, Sepali Guruge, Michaela Hynie, Sheila Htoo, Arzo Akbari, Barinder (Binny) Jandu, Rabea Murtaza, Megan Spasevski, Nahom Berhane and Jessica Forster
A social entrepreneurship framework for mental health equity : the program model of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture / Sean A. Kidd, Kwame J. McKenzie and Mulugeta Abai
The role of settlement agencies in promoting refugee resilience / Biljana Vasilevska
Mental healthcare policy for refugees in Canada / Kwame J. McKenzie, Andrew Tuck and Branka Agic
Supporting human trafficking survivor resiliency through comprehensive case management / Lauren Pesso
Migrant mental health, law, and detention : impacts and alternatives / Chelsea Davis.

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