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Title Forced migration and mental health : rethinking the care of refugees and displaced persons / edited by David Ingleby
Published New York : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages)
Series International and cultural psychology series
International and cultural psychology series.
Contents Editor's introduction / David Ingleby -- PART I. HUMANITARIAN AID AND RECONSTRUCTION -- From trauma to survival and adaptation: towards a framework for guiding mental health initiatives in post-conflict societies / Derrick Silove -- Transforming local and global discourses: reassessing the PTSD movement in Bosnia and Croatia / Paul Stubbs -- Traumatic stress in context: a study of unaccompanied minors from Southern Sudan / Olle Jeppsson, Anders Hjern -- Meeting the mental health needs of children who have been associated with fighting forces: some lessons from Sierra Leone / Ian Clifton-Everest -- PART II. SERVICE PROVISION IN HOST COUNTRIES -- "My whole body is sick ... my life is not good": a Rwandan asylum seeker attends a psychiatric clinic in London / Derek Summerfield -- Mental health care for refugee children in exile / Anders Hjern, Olle Jeppsson -- Getting closer: methods of research with refugees and asylum seekers / Sander Kramer -- Kurdish women refugees: obstacles and opportunities / Choman Hardi -- Beyond the personal pain: integrating social and political conerns in therapy with refugees / Julia Bala -- Mental health services in the UK: lessons from transcultural psychiatry / Suman Fernando -- Mental health and social care for asylum seekers and refugees: a comparative study / David Ingleby, Charles Watters
Summary "This book is relevant to all those working with refugees and displaced persons across the mental health disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and social work, as well as to policy makers and students in these areas."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political refugees -- Mental health services
Refugees -- Mental health services
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Cultural psychiatry.
Cultural pluralism.
Refugees -- psychology
Cultural Diversity
Ethnicity -- psychology
Ethnopsychology -- methods
Mental Health Services -- organization & administration
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- ethnology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Ethnopsychology
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Psychology.
Psychology, Clinical.
Stress, Psychological.
Clinical psychology.
Community & Environmental Psychology.
Cross Cultural Psychology.
Stress and Coping.
Ethnopsychology.
Cultural psychiatry
Cultural pluralism
Political refugees -- Mental health services
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Refugees -- Mental health services
Gedwongen migratie.
Politieke vluchtelingen.
Posttraumatische stressstoornis.
Psycho-social problems.
Child refugees.
Women refugees.
Family.
Form Electronic book
Author Ingleby, David.
ISBN 0387226923
9780387226927
0387226931
9780387226934
9786610147700
6610147701