What can we expect of the mental health and well-being of Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Canada?
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This article is published in Canadian Psychology.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 103 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Refugee & Mental health.read more
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Longing to belong : social inclusion and wellbeing among youth with refugee backgrounds in the first three years in Melbourne, Australia
TL;DR: The Good Starts Study as mentioned in this paper used a mix of both method and theory from anthropology and social epidemiology to identify the psychosocial factors that assist youth with refugee backgrounds in making a good start in their new country.
The persistence of predictors of wellbeing among refugee youth eight years after resettlement in Melbourne, Australia
TL;DR: Previous schooling, self-esteem, moving house in the previous year, a supportive social environment, stronger ethnic identity and perceived discrimination were significant predictors of wellbeing after adjusting for demographic and pre-migration factors.
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Hair cortisol concentrations in war-affected adolescents: A prospective intervention trial
Rana Dajani,Rana Dajani,Kristin Hadfield,Stan Van Uum,Michael Greff,Michael Greff,Catherine Panter-Brick +6 more
TL;DR: A beneficial regularization of cortisol levels is suggested, in war-affected adolescents, corroborating self-reports of improved psychosocial wellbeing, which enhances the understanding of trajectories of endocrine response in adverse environments and patterns of stress responsivity to ecological improvement.
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Practitioner Review: Mental health problems of refugee children and adolescents and their management
Matthew Hodes,Panos Vostanis +1 more
TL;DR: The most robust findings for psychopathology are that PTSD, and posttraumatic and depressive symptoms are found at higher prevalence in those who have been exposed to war experiences and more severe psychiatric disorders including psychosis may also occur.
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How language environment, age, and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada
TL;DR: The authors examined the role of language environment factors, alongside age and cognitive factors, in shaping the Arabic as a first/heritage language and English as a second language of recently arrived Syrian refugee children in Canada (N = 133; mean age = 9 years old; mean family residency = 23 months).
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