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Forced migration and mental health : rethinking the care of refugees and displaced persons
- Title
- Forced migration and mental health : rethinking the care of refugees and displaced persons / edited by David Ingleby.
- Publication
- New York : Springer Science+Business Media, [2005], ©2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Ingleby, David.
- Description
- x, 218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- International and cultural psychology series
- Uniform Title
- International and cultural psychology series.
- Subjects
- Refugees > Mental health services
- Ethnopsychology > methods
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > ethnology
- Refugees > psychology
- Cultural Diversity
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Ethnic Groups > psychology
- Psychiatry, Transcultural
- Political refugees > Mental health services
- Mental Health Services > organization & administration
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Editor's introduction / David Ingleby -- 2. From trauma to survival and adaptation : towards a framework for guiding mental health initiatives in post-conflict societies / Derrick Silove -- 3. Transforming local and global discourses : reassessing the PTSD movement in Bosnia and Croatia / Paul Stubbs -- 4. Traumatic stress in context : a study of unaccompanied minors from Southern Sudan / Olle Jeppsson and Anders Hjern -- 5. Meeting the mental health needs of children who have been associated with fighting forces : some lessons from Sierra Leone / Ian Clifton-Everest -- 6. "My whole body is sick ... my life is not good" : a Rwandan asylum seeker attends a psychiatric clinic in London / Derek Summerfield -- 7. Mental health care for refugee children in exile / Anders Hjern and Olle Jeppsson -- 8. Getting closer : methods of research with refugees and asylum seekers / Sander Kramer -- 9. Kurdish women refugees : obstacles and opportunities / Choman Hardi -- 10. Beyond the personal pain : integrating social and political concerns in therapy with refugees / Julia Bala -- 11. Mental health services in the UK : lessons from transcultural psychiatry / Suman Fernando -- 12. Mental health and social care for asylum seekers and refugees : a comparative study / David Ingleby and Charles Watters.
- ISBN
- 0387226923
- 0387226931 (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2004061519
- OCLC
- ocm56807857
- SCSB-5142819
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries