From symptom to context : a review of the literature on refugee children΄s mental health
Part of : Hellenic journal of psychology ; Vol.4, No.3, 2007, pages 233-256
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233-256
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Social development and social context
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In this paper, we aim to review the growing body of research on the psychosocialwell-being of refugee children. We start with an overview of the chronological models for therefugee experience that conceptualize the process of forced migration as a long-term adversecontext of cumulating risk factors, functioning as a pervasive threat to refugee children'smental health. Next, we briefly summarize the literature on refugee children's mental healthas the starting point for a critical reflection on the dominance of the symptom-focused,trauma-centred approach which characterises much of refugee research. Drawing from this,we argue for the pertinence of research on refugee children's mental health from a familyperspective. Finally, we propose a model for the refugee family experience, which integratesmultiple individual, family and cultural processes, and we organise existing findings onrefugee families in relation to six domains of the refugee family life.
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family perspective, mental health, refugee children
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