Karen Zwi

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  • Paediatrician and Associate Professor, UNSW
Displaced children, like these in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, are remarkably resilient but not all thrive in their new countries. Here’s how we can help them. Joseph Galanakis/AAP

How we can help refugee kids to thrive in Australia

Karen Zwi, UNSW

New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
Children who undertook school-based sexual abuse prevention programs were more likely to know where to turn if they were harmed. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Programs to prevent child sexual abuse increase knowledge and skills but do they reduce risks?

Kerryann Walsh, Queensland University of Technology; Aron Shlonsky, The University of Melbourne; Karen Zwi, UNSW , and Susan Woolfenden, UNSW

A Cochrane review found school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs were moderately effective in arming children with knowledge and skills that may decrease the likelihood that they will be harmed.
Deprivation and trauma and early childhood can affect the developing brain. Australian Human Rights Commission

Detained children risk life‑long physical and mental harm

Karen Zwi, UNSW

Many asylum seekers, including children, have experienced conflict, family separation and significant human rights violations. So how does immigration detention affect their mental health?
Paediatricians says children’s trauma is compounded when they are placed in mandatory detention. Australian Human Rights Commission/AAP

Paediatricians say mandatory detention is child abuse

Reema Rattan, The Conversation

More than 80% of Australian paediatricians believe mandatory detention of asylum seeker children constitutes child abuse, according to survey results published today in the Medical Journal of Australia…

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