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Displaced Children: The Psychological Implications.
Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America, 2016Millions 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, 1999This 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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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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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Psychological distress among displaced persons during an armed conflict in Nepal
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2005Most 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, 2009The 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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A Skill Set for Supporting Displaced Children in Psychological Recovery After Disasters
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2017Helping children, adolescents, and families displaced following a natural disaster is a daunting task made more challenging by the relatively small research base to inform services and interventions. This paper describes the current literature pertaining to intervention practices used with displaced youth.
Betty, Pfefferbaum +4 more
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Victims of war: Psychological problems of displaced people
2001The paper is based on the experience of the Georgian non-Governmental organisation — the Foundation for Development of Human Resources (FDHR) — accumulated since 1995 in a psychosocial rehabilitation work with the displaced people in Georgia.
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Physical, psychological, and political displacement in Angola and Mozambique
Development in Practice, 1997This symposium, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the South Africa Office of Oxfam, drew together individuals and organisations working in the areas of violence, conflict and peace-building. Here, the author discusses the impact of displacement (because of war) on families in Angola and Mozambique, and is ...
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[Psychological vulnerability of teams working with displaced Syrians in Lebanon].
Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere, 2018In the context of the humanitarian crisis of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a team of young Lebanese social workers attempted to identify the most economically vulnerable people. These professionals have themselves sometimes been exposed to social and economic difficulties, having in their own past experienced war and deprivation.
Sahab, Layla Tarazi +3 more
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1998
This paper is based on our field experience and presents the importance of time in the assessment of psychological reactions of displaced persons and refugees. The development of psychological reactions in exile occurred in three basic phases: 1)preoccupation with survival problems, 2) passivity and withdrawal and 3)differentiation of refugees ...
Kozarić-Kovačić, Dragica +2 more
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This paper is based on our field experience and presents the importance of time in the assessment of psychological reactions of displaced persons and refugees. The development of psychological reactions in exile occurred in three basic phases: 1)preoccupation with survival problems, 2) passivity and withdrawal and 3)differentiation of refugees ...
Kozarić-Kovačić, Dragica +2 more
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