From symptom to context: a rewiev on the litterature on refugee childrens mental health
- Författare
- De Haene, L., Grietens, H., & Verschueren, K.
- Titel
- From symptom to context: a rewiev on the litterature on refugee childrens mental health
- Utgivningsår
- 2007
- Tidskrift
- Hellenic Journal of Psychology
- Volym
- 4
- Sidor
- 23-256
- Sammanfattning
In this paper, we aim to review the growing body of research on the psychosocial well-being of refugee children. We start with an overview of the chronological models for the refugee experience that conceptualize the process of forced migration as a long-term adverse context of cumulating risk factors, functioning as a pervasive threat to refugee children's mental health. Next, we briefly summarize the literature on refugee children's mental health as 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 family perspective. Finally, we propose a model for the refugee family experience, which integrates multiple individual, family and cultural processes, and we organise existing findings on refugee families in relation to six domains of the refugee family life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)