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The mental health of Syrian refugee children and adolescents

Forced Migration Review, 2014
Mental health services can be key to restoring basic psychological functioning and to supporting resilience and positive coping strategies for children, adolescents and adults.
Leah James, Annie Sovcik, Ferdinand Garoff, Reem Abbasi   +3 more
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Interventions addressing mental health in conflict-affected settings: A literature review

Conflict and Health
The burden of mental health disorders is high in conflict-affected populations. However, there is still limited evidence from studies that measure the effectiveness of mental health interventions implemented in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Nicoline Falkbøll, Marie Louise D. Østergaard, José Gabriel Zapata García, Diego Mauricio Aponte Canencio, Jens Modvig, Marie Brasholt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing trauma in refugees using ITEM and ITI: clinician’s reported challenges and ethical-professional considerations

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Introduction: This study investigates clinical reported challenges and ethical-professional considerations related to the use of the International Trauma Interview (ITI) and International Trauma Exposure Measure (ITEM) with trauma-affected refugees in ...
Frederik Bernt Scharff, Sofie Grimshave Bangsgaard, Thomas Brudholm, Lotte Segal, Linda Nordin, Sabina Palic, Marie Høgh Thøgersen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic litigation against torture: Why domestic courts matter [PDF]

, 2022
Strategic human rights litigation is often associated with filing cases before international courts and treaty bodies. While international litigation is an important avenue of seeking social change and setting new standards of rights protection, it has ...
Lisitsyna, Maria
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Support and destigmatization in early pregnancy loss in Spain

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Early miscarriages are a frequent reproductive event, often silenced and shrouded in stigma. Feminist anthropology has pointed out how such losses challenge the widespread Euro‐American social representations of motherhood and pregnancy, as well as societal unease with death.
Giulia Colavolpe‐Severi, Alexandra Desy, Carolina Remorini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration and torture: Building a map of knowledge [PDF]

, 2018
We already have more than twenty-five years of academic research on migration and torture; the field has developed into an increasingly complex one since the first descriptive and epidemiological studies. This Editorial puts forward a conceptual map
Pérez-Sales, Pau
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Gender, violence, and killing: Revisiting femicide, and the overlooked realities of male victimization

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Marwan Habiba, Sekaren Shantha‐Kumari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proving torture: demanding the impossible

Forced Migration Review, 2017
New research demonstrates that errors by Home Office asylum caseworkers in their handling of expert medical evidence of torture can make it almost impossible for survivors of torture seeking asylum in the UK to prove that they were tortured.
Lucy Gregg, Jo Pettitt
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Dehumanization and self-reported proclivity to torture prisoners of war. [PDF]

, 2013
Several authors have argued that dehumanization may be the psychological process that underlies people's willingness to torture outgroup members. In the current research, we directly examined this question among Christian participants, with Muslims as ...
G. Tendayi Viki, Viki, G. Tendayi, Osgood, Daniel, Daniel Osgood, Sabine Phillips, Phillips, Sabine   +5 more
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Testimonial Therapy: Impact on social participation and emotional wellbeing among Indian survivors of torture and organized violence

Torture, 2018
Introduction: Traumatizing events, such as torture, cause considerable impairments in psycho-social functioning. In developing countries, where torture is often perpetrated, few resources exist for the provision of therapeutic or rehabilitating ...
Mia Myhre Jørgensen, Jens Modvig, Inger Agger, Lenin Raghuvanshi, Shirin Shabana Khan, Peter Polatin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source