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Immune, Endocrine, and Psychological Responses in Civilians Displaced by War

Psychosomatic Medicine, 2000
The objectives of this study were to assess the influence of trauma caused by forced expulsion from home in a war-ravaged region on the psychological, hormonal, and immune responses in displaced persons and to analyze the relationships between psychometric, hormonal, and immunologic variables.Participants were 20 displaced and 14 control women ...
Dekaris, Dragan, Jeren, Tatjana, Rijavec, Majda, Sabioncello, Ante, Matijević-Mašić, Ljubica, Kocijan-Hercigonja, Dubravka, Rabatić, Sabina, Tomašić, Jelka   +7 more
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The Psychological Displacement Paradigm in Diary-Writing (PDPD) and its Psychological Benefits

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2012
The present study aimed to investigate the psychological displacement paradigm in diary-writing (PDPD) had both immediate and short-term psychological benefits. Participants were randomly assigned to write about their recent negative life experiences two times a week for 2 weeks in PDPD group or comparison group.
Chang, J.-H., Huang, C.-L., Lin, Y.-C.
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DISPLACEMENT: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

1965
Abstract : The problem investigated in the study was one of the many involved in population relocation, e.g., evacuation, migration, etc. The study focused upon the general problem of billeting in private homes and upon the specific problem of factors which generate interfamily tension thereby making adjustment difficult.
Robert S. Hostetter, John W. McLanahan
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Socio-psychological adaptation of externally displaced Ukrainians in Germany

Sociology – Social Work and Social Welfare: Regulation of Social Problems (Lviv, May 18–19, 2023): Proceedings of The XIII International Scientific Conference, 2023
Background: The problem of social and psychological adaptation of externally displaced Ukrainians is extremely urgent today, as millions of citizens were forced to leave Ukraine as a result of the full-scale invasion. Given the differences in language, culture, religion, and administrative structure of the host countries, the problem of adaptation has ...
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Displaced Memories in Victorian Fiction and Psychology

Victorian Studies, 2007
in The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (1930), Hardy recounts his hesita tions about renting a furnished house, his uncanny feeling that the “articles in the rooms are saturated with the thoughts and glances of others” (18). Hardy’s observations about the mental traces we leave upon the material world register a disparity between the fleeting nature of ...
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Displaced Children: The Psychological Implications.

Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America, 2016
Millions of people across the world have been displaced or live in exile and/or as refugees largely as a consequence of wars, acts of terrorism, and catastrophic natural disasters. There are serious psychological consequences as a result of these extremely difficult life circumstances.
Paramjit T, Joshi, John A, Fayyad
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Psychological intervention with displaced widows in Sri Lanka

International Review of Psychiatry, 1999
This paper describes a programme for war widows residing in refugee camps in Sri Lanka.The country has been traumatized by civil conflict for over 15 years and one in seventeen people have been displaced.The explicit aim of the programme is to promote mental health among the refugees, mainly by facilitating coping strategies.
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Pre-displacement stressors, psychological morbidity, and PTSD symptoms among displaced women by Boko-Haram in North-East Nigeria: The buffering roles of psychological capital

Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2020
We utilised a cross-sectional survey design to examine the moderating roles of dimensional psychological capital (PsyCap) and pre-displacement stressors on the relationship between psychological mo...
Erhabor S. Idemudia, Babatola D. Olawa, Gail E. Wyatt, Norweeta Milburn   +3 more
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Psychological distress among displaced persons during an armed conflict in Nepal

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2005
Most internally displaced persons (IDPs) live in low-income countries experiencing a war; their psychosocial health has not been well addressed. We carried out a comprehensive assessment of traumatic experiences, distress symptomatology, and factors independently associated with distress among IDPs in Nepal.A cross-sectional survey was conducted among ...
Suraj Bahadur, Thapa, Edvard, Hauff
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Displacement and stigma: The social-psychological crisis of the deportee

Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2009
The phenomenon of forced repatriation for non-citizens has grown exponentially since the passing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and the Patriot Act of 2001. This development is the `natural' result of the three wars on the globalized `other': the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, and the war on the ...
David C. Brotherton, Luis Barrios
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