As immigration enforcement crackdowns expand across the US, communities can mobilize to lessen the public health impacts.
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Addressing key barriers to refugees accessing mental health services is in everyone’s best interest.
Even we were surprised at the levels of mental ill-health years after being released into the community.
A Calgary refugee health clinic documented the stories of 242 Yazidi genocide survivors, recounting enslavement, slaughter and forced indoctrination.
Music therapy offers a flexible and accessible way of supporting wellbeing and addressing traumatic experiences.
The war in Ukraine has traumatised many people, military and civilian. But the country’s health service was already ill-equipped to deal with mental health issues.
Ukrainian children, refugees and military personnel will be among those hardest hit with PTSD due to the Russian invasion.
The COVID-19 pandemic and a growing global refugee crisis have shone a light on the ever-increasing need for new approaches to mental health treatment.
Our research outlines some concrete steps businesses can take to boost employment of refugees. And there are strategic benefits business can reap along the way.
Immigrants and other newcomers to Canada are worried about maintaining their relationships and staying afloat, and need government consideration and support.
Only rarely are refugees’ and migrants’ words taken into account about the reception system in Europe. And what they tell us is frightening.
The brain can do a lot, but it is vulnerable, especially to traumatic events. Over the years, researchers have learned the unique ways in which it is damaged by experiencing or witnessing trauma.
Top contributors
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW
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Professor & Director, Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology UNSW Sydney and Daphne Keats Chair in Cross-Cultural Psychology, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Management, Discipline of International Business, University of Sydney
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Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary
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Associate professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Windsor
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Deputy Director, PIER; Associate Professor, Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor - General Internal Medicine; Depts. of Medicine and Community Health Sciences | Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Head of the Research Lab for Psychological Support of Law Enforcement, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
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Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy, University of South Wales
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Research Assistant Professor of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
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Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health and Latino/Latina Studies, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health