Refugee Children and Their Families: Supporting Psychological Well-Being and Positive Adaptation Following Migration

Measham, Toby; Guzder, Jaswant; Rousseau, Cécile; Pacione, Laura; Blais-McPherson, Morganne; Nadeau, Lucie

doi:10.1016/j.cppeds.2014.03.005

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“…(Table 2). The following recommendations can be used in any setting and are based on the experiences of pediatric healthcare professionals working with child refugees (Enskär, Ankarcrona, Jörgense, & Huus, 2012;Henley & Robinson, 2011;Lori & Boyle, 2015;Measham et al, 2014;Riggs et al, 2012).…”

Section: How Pediatric Nurses Can Helpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Displaced and forgotten child refugees: A humanitarian crisis

Murray

2015

Specialist Pediatric Nursing

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Section: How Pediatric Nurses Can Helpmentioning

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Displaced and forgotten child refugees: A humanitarian crisis

Murray

2015

Specialist Pediatric Nursing

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“…Refugee parents may work to enable their children's recovery and resilience, or their own mental health and difficulty may add to the difficulties of their children's developmental and acculturation accomplishments (Bryant et al, 2018;Measham et al, 2014). Since developmental pathways are likely to vary, it is important to know what relations and social structures are in place in the environment, and how they are interpreted and used by children and young people.…”

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Computer-Assisted Expressions of the Perspectives of Refugee Children in Resettlement

Lawrence¹,

Kaplan²,

Dodds³

2019

Human Development

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Understanding the perspectives of refugee children on their lives is important for acknowledging children’s rights, competence, and contributions to practice and policy. Children’s perspectives are the views they construct for framing events, relationships and images, and the meanings they convey in relational coactions with other people and institutions. We demonstrate the usefulness of digital technology in the form of computer-assisted interviews (CAIs) for enabling refugee children to express perspectives on their lives in resettlement. We describe how CAIs constructed by adopting a child’s perspective recognize the children’s agency and enable their expressions of their perspectives. We illustrate the facilities of CAIs with analyses of children’s ratings and open-ended typed comments about their worries and who helps them to feel better. Children’s views revealed the predominance of family members as sources of worry and help. We discuss the implications of using digital technology in research to provide children with ways of contributing to knowledge construction.

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“…Measham et al (2014) suggest that we -work around trauma‖ rather than -on trauma‖ in order to recognise the experiences of children.…”

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“…The clinical research -Erit team‖ headed by Cecile Rousseau has developed innovative creative expression workshops implemented within schools to help teachers and youth work with experiences of trauma, migration and integration (Rousseau, 2003;Measham, Rousseau & Nadeau, 2005). Moreover, specialised mental health services for refugee children encourage community-oriented and family approaches where school staff and community organisations are seen as partners in care (Kirmayer, Jarvis & Guzder, 2014;Measham et al, 2014;Nadeau et al, 2005;. This requires complex inter-professional and inter-institutional practices that are generally not part of professional training and not always easily implemented due to clinical, organisational and administrative barriers.…”

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Children of War: Quebec’s Social Policy Response to Children and Their Families

Fraser¹,

Denov²,

Guzder³

et al. 2016

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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Canada has signed the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict that obligates signatories to ensure assistance and support to war-affected children's physical and psychological recovery as well as their social reintegration. In light of this obligation, the paper reviews the most recent policies related to immigrants and refugees of four Quebec (Canada) ministries, with particular attention to the frameworks underpinning these policies and practices in order to explore how the needs of refugee children are conceptualised and how these same conceptualisations orient the action plans. Miller and Rasmussen's (2010) psychosocial/trauma integrative model is used as a benchmark to assess whether and how policies integrate considerations from both psychosocial and trauma focused conceptual models. The analysis suggests that all four ministries adopt a psychosocial focus but that none directly mention the impact of war, potential trauma or pre-migratory experiences on children's reintegration or resettlement. There seems to be a divide and a lack of coherence in the goals and underlying philosophies of the action plans of the different ministries, most likely in part related to their differences in mandate. Indeed, the Ministry of Health and Social Services emphasizes individual and family wellbeing, while the Ministry of Education prioritizes citizenship and the development of Quebec. Potential implications of these policy orientations for children having been exposed to war living in the Quebec context are discussed.

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Refugee Children and Their Families: Supporting Psychological Well-Being and Positive Adaptation Following Migration

Cited by 107 publications

References 54 publications

Displaced and forgotten child refugees: A humanitarian crisis

Displaced and forgotten child refugees: A humanitarian crisis

Computer-Assisted Expressions of the Perspectives of Refugee Children in Resettlement

Children of War: Quebec’s Social Policy Response to Children and Their Families

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