Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Tom Craig, and Kamaldeep Bhui

Presents the theory and practice behind treating refugees and asylums seekers, helping the reader understand their unique problems, and how they can best be helped
Written by people with considerable experience working with this population, providing authoritative and reliable advice on how to treat mental health problems in this community
Includes coverage of mental health problems across all age ranges, including those of child refugees

Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Tom Craig, and Kamaldeep Bhui

Description

Thoughout the world the number of refugees and asylum seekers continues to increase at an astonishing rate. Given that most will have left their country due to persecution, war, or appalling violations of their human rights, many will have specific mental health needs. Cultural and socioeconomic factors play a major role in expressions of distress, help seeking, pathways into care, and acceptance or rejection of treatments. Being a refugee or asylum seeker raises questions about an individual's self respect and altered identity. Too often though, the needs of this population are ignored by policy makers and clinicians, and these people are left to fend for themselves.

Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers presents both the theoretical and practical aspects of the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers. It looks at the impact of migration on mental health and adjustment, collective trauma, individual identity, and diagnostic fallacies. A practical section highlights cultural factors, ethnopsychopharmacology, therapeutic interaction, therapeutic expectation and psychotherapy. The final part of the book focuses on special problems - such as bereavement, sexual violence, and post traumatic stress disorders, as well as considering mental health problems in special groups, such as child refugees.

This book will be an essential resource for all mental health professionals- helping them better understand the needs of refugees and asylum seekers, how their problems can be managed, and how they can best be helped.

Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Tom Craig, and Kamaldeep Bhui

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

Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Tom Craig, and Kamaldeep Bhui

Author Information

Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK, Tom Craig, Professor of Social Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK, and Kamaldeep Bhui, Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Barts & The London, Queen Mary School of Medicine & Dentistry; Hon Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust. President-Elect, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry; Trustee of Careif; Chair of Afiya Trust; Public health lead, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK

Contributors:

Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, Barts and The London Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, UK
Dr Jim Crabb, Falkirk Royal Infirmary, Scotland, UK
Professor Tom Craig, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Dr Sean Cross, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park London, UK
Dr Nick Grey, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Professor Helen Herrman, ORYGEN Research Centre, Victoria, Australia
Dr Julia Huemer, Lab for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, California, USA
Professor Rachel Jenkins, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Dr Ida Kaplan, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, Victoria, Australia
Dr J David Kinzie, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Dr Alan Koike, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, USA
Dr Russell Lim, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, USA
Dr Keh-Ming Lin, Division of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan
Dr Gillian Mezey, Division of Mental Health, St George's University of London, UK
Susan Rees, Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Forbes & Campbell, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Pedro Ruiz, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical School, University of Texas, USA
Professor Derrick Silove, Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Cnr Forbes & Campbell, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Daya Somasundaram, Glenside Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Zachary Steel, Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Forbes & Campbell, New South Wales, Australia
Professor Dr Thomas Stompe, Psychiatric University Clinic, Vienna, Austria
Dr Josef Szware, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, Victoria, Australia
Dr Ajoy Thachil, St George's University of London, Division of Mental Health, London, UK
Dr Lakshmi Vijaykumar, SNEHA & Voluntary Health Services, Chennai, India
Professor Panos Vostanis, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, Leicester, UK
Dr Nasir Warfa, Centre of Psychiatry Wolfson, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK