Mental health of refugees and asylum seekers

Many refugees and asylum seekers have left their country due to persecution, war, or appalling violations of their human rights. They therefore often have specific mental health needs.This book presents both the theory and practice behind understanding and treating the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers. INDICE: 1: Dinesh Bhugra and Pedro Ruiz: Introduction: Refugees and asylum seekers: conceptual issues; 2: Tom Craig: Mental distress and psychological interventions in refugee populations; 3: Thomas Stompe, David Holzer, and Alexander Friedmann: Pre-migration and mental health of refugees; 4: Helen Herrman, Ida Kaplan, and Josef Szwarc: Post-migration and mental health in Australia; 5: K.S. Bhui and Nasir Warfa: Psychiatric diagnoses and assessment issues for refugees and asylum seekers; 6: Daya Somasundaram: Complex mental health problems of refugees; 7: Sean Cross, Jim Crabb, and Rachel Jenkins: International refugee policy; 8: Pedro Ruiz, Susham Gupta, and Dinesh Bhugra: Dealing withcultural differences; 9: Pedro Ruiz: Therapeutic skills and therapeutic expectations; 10: J. David Kinzie, John Mark Kinzie: Treatment goals and therapeutic actions; 11: Keh-Ming Lin, Tonya Fancher, and Freda Cheung: Psychopharmacology for asylum seekers and refugees; 12: Russell Lim and Alan Koike: Psychotherapy and refugees; 13: Nick Grey, Damon Lab, and Kerry Young: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; 14: Lakshmi Vijayakumar amd A. T. Jotheeswarma: Suicide in refugees and asylum seekers; 15: Wojtek Wojcik, Dinesh Bhugra, and Tom Craig: Lossand cultural bereavement; 16: Julia Huemer and Panos Vostanis: Child refugeesand refugee families; 17: Gill Mezey and Ajoy Thachil: Sexual violence and refugees; 18: Derrick Silove and Susan Rees: Paternalism or autonomy?: ethics, ideology and science in refugee mental health interventions; 19: Sean Cross andJim Crabb: Impact on clinicians; 20: K.S. Bhui, Nasir Warfa, and Salaad Mohamud: Mental health service provision for asylum seekers and refugees; 21: Dinesh Bhugra, Tom Craig, and K.S. Bhui: Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955722-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés