Thematic Focus: Mental Health

Opportunity:

Online course: Refugee Mental Health: Focus on Syrian Refugees, 19 July-30 August 2017 [info]
- No deadline indicated.

Publications:

Anxiety among U.S. Syrian Refugee Children, Poster session at Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Diego, CA, 20-24 May 2017 [info]
- See also related MedPageToday report and more about the study here.

Can You Still Have Hope When Life Seems Hopeless?, 23 April 2017 [text]
- References this article recently published in Transcultural Psychiatry.

"Daily Stressors, Trauma Exposure, and Mental Health among Stateless Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh," Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 54, no. 3 (2017) [ResearchGate]

"From Undocumented to Lawfully Present: Do Changes to Legal Status Impact Psychological Wellbeing among Latino Immigrant Young Adults?," Social Science & Medicine, In Press, 9 March 2017 [abstract]
- See also related ImmigrationProf blog post and earlier report.

Hidden Burdens of Conflict: Issues of Mental Health and Access to Services among Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine (International Alert, May 2017) [text]

"High Manifestations of Mental Distress in Arabic Asylum Seekers Accommodated in Collective Centers for Refugees in Germany," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(6) (June 2017) [open access]

"An Integrated Intervention to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence and Psychological Distress with Refugees in Low-resource Settings: Study Protocol for the Nguvu Cluster Randomized Trial," BMC Psychiatry, 17:186 (May 2017) [open access]

"The Mental Health of Children and Parents Detained on Christmas Island: Secondary Analysis of an Australian Human Rights Commission Data Set," Health and Human Rights Journal, Papers in Press, 3 Dec. 2016 [open access]

"Risk of Psychosis in Refugees: A Literature Review," Translational Psychiatry, 7: e1149 (June 2017) [open access]

"Tips for Mental Health Providers Working with Southeast Asian Immigrants/Refugees," Psychiatry Information in Brief, vol. 14, no. 5 (2017) [open access]


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- Thematic Focus: Mental Health (13 May 2017)

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