Forced Migration and Mental Health Rethinking the Care of Refugees and Displaced Persons /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ingleby, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology Series,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Clinical psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Clinical Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

In the last half century, the steadily increasing incidence of armed conflict (both within and between nations) has created mounting numbers of asylum seekers, refugees, and displaced persons. The provision of appropriate mental health services for these individuals has become a major focus of conce...

Table of Contents:

• Editor’s Introduction
• From Trauma to Survival and Adaptation:
• Transforming Local and Global Discourses
• Traumatic Stress in Context
• Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children Who Have Been Associated with Fighting Forces
• “My Whole Body is Sick … my Life is not Good”
• Mental Health Care for Refugee Children in Exile
• Getting Closer
• Kurdish Women Refugees
• Beyond The Personal Pain:
• Mental Health Services in the UK
• Mental Health and Social Care for Asylum Seekers and Refugees.