Childhood, War, Refugeedom and ‘Trauma’: Three Core Questions for Mental Health Professionals

By D. Summerfield. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• Resilience and Its Association with Depression, Emotional and Behavioural Problems, and Mental Health Service Utilisation among Refugee Adolescents Living in South Australia (2012, background): “Although most young refugees exposed to trauma do not develop mental health problems [15, 16], resilience and coping are largely neglected in refugee research, theory, and practice [17–19].”
• Review of child and adolescent refugee mental health. (2004, background): “This pathologizing perspective (Summerfield, 1999; Summerfield, 2000; Watters, 2001), may increase access to needed services or benefits by bringing attention to the plight of refugees, but can detrimentally downplay child refugees’ resilience and innate strengths (Papadopoulos, 2001; Rousseau, 1993”