Practitioner Review: Assessment and treatment of refugee children and adolescents who have experienced war‐related trauma

Ehntholt, Kimberly A.; Yule, William

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01638.x

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“…In their review article, Ehntholt and Yule (68) found that young refugees were frequently subjected to multiple traumatic events and severe losses, as well as ongoing stressors within the host country. Although young refugees are often resilient, many experience mental health difficulties, including PTSD, depression, anxiety and grief.…”

Section: Treatment or How To Help To War Traumatized Children And Adomentioning

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Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hasanović

2011

AMA

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²Research into the psychosocial consequences of war and political violence on children's and adolescent's developmental wellbeing has shown a steady increase over the last decades. Numerous studies, from differing cultures in different war zones around the world, have documented the effect on children of exposure to war atrocities. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) 1992-1995, at the end of 20 th century found the citizens of BH and the world mental health professionals and scientists unprepared to deal with the adverse consequences for the entire BH population and especially for its most vulnerable part, children and adolescents, to be able to take adequate measures of sufficient mental health care to prevent devastating consequences of severe multiple traumas. Only a few research studies were done during and after this war in BH, the United States, Sweden, Norway, the UK and Germany focusing on the relationship between war trauma, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicidal thoughts, acculturation, repatriation, poverty, behavioral problems, school adjustment, relational problems of children and their mothers after deployment of war PTSD veterans and war prisoners, and treatment of psychological consequences in examined children and adolescents from BH. The major part of this paper reviewed available literature on Medline that reported national and international studies which investigated the psychological consequences of war on BH children and adolescents and several papers about children and adolescents from Srebrenica, that were not indexed on Medline, but showed very crucial results for the issue described.

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Section: Treatment or How To Help To War Traumatized Children And Adomentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hasanović

2011

AMA

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“…In addition, it is important to note that positive experiences of school belonging play a particularly important role for young refugee students not only because of the outcomes of school belonging outlined above, but also because trauma and mental health interventions for refugees are increasingly being administered through schools (Ehntholt & Yule, 2006). It is plausible to suggest that if levels of school belonging are not high, such interventions risk being less effective from the very beginning.…”

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Experiences of School Belonging for Young Children With Refugee Backgrounds

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Riggs

Augoustinos

2016

The Educational and Developmental Psychologist

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Previous research with adolescents with refugee backgrounds living in countries of resettlement has found that school belonging impacts upon a range of wellbeing and developmental outcomes, including mental health, peer relationships, self esteem and self efficacy, and academic achievement.However, very little research has explored school belonging in younger children with refugee backgrounds (that is, less than 13 years of age). In this paper, we report on a participatory research project concerning the experiences and understandings of school belonging with 15 children with refugee backgrounds (aged five to 13 years old), who had been living in This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of a paper published in the Educational and Developmental Psychologist Copyright Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/edp.2016.9Australia for less than 12 months. The research aimed to explore experiences of school and school belonging from the perspective of children, and utilized photo elicitation techniques. The study found that refugee children were able to create a sense of school belonging through aspects of the school environment that reflected their identity and values, and through their relationships with their peers and teachers. In conclusion, we highlight the importance of ensuring that schools create spaces for refugee students to demonstrate their knowledge, values and skills at school, and to ensure that strategies to promote school belonging in refugee students take into account their experiences and identity. IntroductionIn 2015, the office for the United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that there were nearly 20 million refugees world--wide, over half of whom were under 18. This is the highest number of refugees since World War II (UNHCR, 2015). While only a proportion of these young people and their families will be moved to a resettlement country, it is nevertheless vitally important that resettlement countries have an evidence base upon which to draw when providing settlement services and support to young people with refugee backgrounds. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of a paper published in the Educational and Developmental Psychologist Copyright Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/edp.2016.9In resettlement countries such as Australia, school is one of the primary places where newly arrived refugee students will connect with their community, build relationships, and establish a sense of belonging in their new country (Woods, 2009;Matthews, 2008; Correa--Velez, Gifford, & Barnett, 2010;Mace, Mulheron, Jones, & Cherian, 2014;de Heer, Due, & Riggs, 2016). As such, school belonging plays a crucial role in establishing a sense of social inclusion, positive wellbeing and the development of peer relationships for refugee young people from the beginning of their resettlement (Correa--Velez, et al., 2010;de Heer, et al., 2016; Woods, 2009).However, while there is a body of research that has explored school belonging in adolescents in general (Van Ryzin, Gravely, & Roseth, 20...

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“…A large research body indicates that they shake the basic sense of security and give rise to posttraumatic symptoms among adults [18,19] and teens [20]. These symptoms include delayed emotional and behavioral problems [21], posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD), and depression, anxiety and grief [18].…”

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Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

Kimhi¹,

Eshel²

2016

J Community Med Health Educ

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Four months after Israel's war with the Gaza Strip (2014) we distributed questionnaires to 510 adults: 251 civilians who live in southern Israel and have recently been threatened by massive missile fire, and 259 adults who live in northern Israel, which has not been under missile fire for the last eight years. The current study focuses on two issues: first, a new index to measure individual resilience based on recovery to distress symptoms ratio; second, examining five demographic characteristics and sense of danger as predictors of individual resilience. Path analysis indicated that individual resilience significantly correlated negatively with sense of danger and exposure (β=-0.34), and positively with level of religiosity (β=0.24) and income (β=0.17). Sense of danger mediated the associations between area of living, community size and level of exposure and individual resilience. Results are discussed in terms of the role of demographic characteristics with respect to individual resilience.

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Practitioner Review: Assessment and treatment of refugee children and adolescents who have experienced war‐related trauma

Abstract: More research is required in order to expand our limited knowledge base.

Cited by 386 publications

References 107 publications

Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Experiences of School Belonging for Young Children With Refugee Backgrounds

Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

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