Emotional expressiveness and avoidance in narratives of unaccompanied refugee minors [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2016 Objective: The aim of this study was to examine a cohort of unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) by means of psycholinguistic methods in order to obtain a more subtle picture of their degree of traumatization.
Julia Huemer +2 more
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Factors affecting the acculturation strategies of unaccompanied refugee minors in Germany [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundDifferent acculturation strategies might be related to different mental health outcomes and social participation of unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs), but little is known about which factors influence this acculturation process.
Maike Garbade +5 more
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Prevalence, Contributing and Protective Factors, and Effective Interventions: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Children, 2023 In 2021, there were close to 37 million children displaced worldwide. There were 13.7 million refugees and an additional 22.8 million internally displaced. In Europe, this included 23,255 unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, up 72% compared with 2020 (13,
Charles Oberg, Hayley Sharma
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Mental health issues in unaccompanied refugee minors [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2009 Previous studies about unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) showed that they are a highly vulnerable group who have greater psychiatric morbidity than the general population. This review focuses on mental health issues among URMs.
Huemer Julia +6 more
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Navigating cultural transitions during resettlement: the case of unaccompanied refugee minors [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionRefugees face the process of cross-cultural transitions upon arrival in their host country. This process is commonly referred to as acculturation and can be particularly challenging for asylum-seeking children and adolescent unaccompanied by ...
Elin Sofia Andersson +2 more
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Promoting Mental Health in Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Recommendations for Primary Support Programs [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2017 During the last years, the number of refugees around the world increased to about 22.5 million. The mental health of refugees, especially of unaccompanied minors (70% between the ages of 16 and 18 years) who have been exposed to traumatic events (e.g ...
Usama El-Awad +3 more
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Overcoming barriers to mental health care: multimodal trauma-focused treatment approach for unaccompanied refugee minors [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2021 Background This study evaluated the feasibility of a short-term, multimodal trauma-focused treatment approach adapted specifically for unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) in the Netherlands.
Carlijn M. van Es +8 more
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Overrepresentation of unaccompanied refugee minors in inpatient psychiatric care. [PDF]
Springerplus, 2015 Abstract Background Unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) have high levels of psychiatric symptoms, and concerns for their access to mental health services have been raised. From the mid-2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking URMs, mainly adolescent boys from Afghanistan, have been referred to the Child & ...
Ramel B +3 more
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Morbidity profile and sociodemographic characteristics of unaccompanied refugee minors seen by paediatric practices between October 2014 and February 2016 in Bavaria, Germany [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background This study aimed to investigate the morbidity profile and the sociodemographic characteristics of unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) arriving in the region of Bavaria, Germany, between October 2014 and February 2016.
Teresa Kloning +5 more
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Narrative analysis of interviews conducted with African unaccompanied refugee minors. [PDF]
J Glob HealthUnaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) are a particularly vulnerable subgroup of refugees, frequently exhibiting high levels of distress and a wide range of trauma-related symptoms. They are at risk of poor mental health outcomes such as developing complex posttraumatic stress disorder, an emergent mental disorder associated with re-experiencing ...
Bründlmayer A +6 more
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