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2003
This resource pack developed by the Department of Health and the Refugee Council is aimed at health professionals and service providers working with asylum seekers. It provides information on healthcare entitlements, guidelines and policy, mental health policy and NASS support arrangements. It also contains a number of examples of good practice.
Refugee Action has a number of independently funded projects that meet the specific needs (including mental health) of refugees and asylum seekers. Site contains lists of projects and contacts, see drop down menu on the right.
Aim: To advocate for better health, welfare and social care provision includes Mental Health Project that helps those suffering from depression, panic disorders, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bereavement grief stress and youth behavioural problems.
Ken Miller:
Projects include: Traumatic Grief Among Bosnian Refugees; The Relative Contribution of War Experiences and Exile-related Stressors to Levels of Distress Among Bosnian Refugees; Distress and Coping Among Bosnian Refugees;Interpreting in Refugee Mental Health Settings; Growing up in Exile: A Narrative Study of Young Adult Children of Refugees; From Clinic to Community: Ecological Approaches to Refugee Mental Health
Includes: a visual arts project (ran June-December 2000) working with refugee children and young people in primary, secondary and special education plus a refugee artist training project in collaboration with the Grand Union Orchestra. Funded by the London Arts Board and Islington Education Department, the project commenced in February 2000.
The Refugee Working Group is chaired by Canada and works primarily with humanitarian questions such as family reunification, employment, health, welfare, social and economic infrastructure, and also databases, which is the responsibility of Norway. Also lists details of current projects.
Amina Tirana, Nov-05
Article: includes discussion on health programmes for refugees that increasingly provide therapy for acute mental illness and trauma in children, for instance through visual arts. Discusses short and long term implications and the importance of shared experience.
Natasha Ljubomirovic, 1996-1998
Article includes: 3 years of study 1992-1994 with 174 refugees; scale of problems; relationship between trauma and gender; principles of group work. (unevaluated).
Gorst-Unsworth, Goldenberg, 172: 90-94. c. 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatry., 1989
Article includes: a brief summary of interviews with 84 Iraqi mal refugees, concluding with importance of social support. Unevaluated.
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