Refugees from Bhutan and Somalia report high rates of approval for a new intervention program developed "for refugees, by refugees" to help strengthen immigrant families as they settle in the US, according to a new study ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Most research on the mental health of refugees focuses on the first few years after resettlement in the host country, but little is known about their long-term mental health.
Jan 23, 2020
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Mental health is often used in political discourse and arguments. Post-traumatic stress disorder was the subject Jan. 8, when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.), herself a Somalian refugee who had spent years in a refugee camp in ...
Jan 22, 2020
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A positive psychology program created by researchers at Queen Mary University of London focuses on promoting wellbeing in refugee children. It is unusual in that it focuses on promoting positive outcomes, rather than addressing ...
Jan 17, 2020
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A new study has revealed the association between refugees' visas and their mental health.
Dec 16, 2019
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Refugees and other migrants who move to Sweden are initially less likely to be diagnosed with alcohol or drug addiction than the native population but over time their rates of substance abuse begin to mirror that of the Swedish ...
Nov 6, 2019
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For approximately a decade, research has examined whether trauma or poverty is the most powerful influence on children's cognitive abilities. To address this question, a new study compared adolescents in Jordan—refugees ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Refugees who fled to Sweden were no more likely to die by suicide than migrants who moved to the country on their own terms, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and UCL in the U.K. However, ...
Oct 15, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have studied what it means for children to have parents who are refugees and have PTSD. The study shows that these children have a significantly higher risk of contact with the ...
Sep 13, 2019
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A world-first intervention for refugee men who suffer from PTSD has shown promise in a trial, encouraging them to get help.
Jul 30, 2019
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