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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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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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Psychological morbidity among forcibly displaced children—a literature review

Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -), 2020
In 2018, nearly 75 million people were displaced from their place of origin of which 20.4 million are considered as refugees. Children constitute over half of this population. A review of the currently available literature regarding the psychological impact of forced displacement on children was performed with the concept examined under three stages of
Christian Rey Cayabyab, Peter O’Reilly, Anne-Marie Murphy, Clodagh O’Gorman   +3 more
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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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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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Forced displacement in Yugoslavia: A meta‐analysis of psychological consequences and their moderators

Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2001
AbstractA meta‐analysis was conducted to synthesize what is known about differences in mental health between refugees and nonrefugees from the former Yugoslavia. The analysis focused on moderating effects of a variety of enduring, contextual stressors.
M, Porter, N, Haslam
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Physical, psychological, and political displacement in Angola and Mozambique

Development in Practice, 1997
This 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 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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Time course of psychological adaptation and development of psychological disturbances in refugees and displaced persons

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, Marušić, Ana, Folnegović-Šmalc, Vera   +2 more
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