This chapter deals mostly with the challenges and opportunities in mental health clinical work with people from a different cultural background. The question of unconscious biases and prejudice in the therapist is explored, as well as the presumptions and fears of families seen in a mental health...
A report examines the situation of adult education for immigrants and refugees in Australia. The first section situates the nation's immigration program wi... SC Allender 被引量: 13发表: 1998年 The roles of employers in the regional settlement of recently arrived migrants and refugees This artic...
Methodology: 90 in-depth interviews were conducted at five program sites (Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Durham, and Fargo) of Caring Across Communities, a national demonstration project of school-based mental health services for refugees and immigrants. Interviews were conducted with mental health ...
CMS is an active member of the NGO Human Rights Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigrants and Refugees, since its formation in 2003; and a long standing member of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (concerned with trafficking), the NGO Committee on the Rights of the Child (concerned wit...
ImmigrantsMythologyRefugeesA follow-up to a previous study, this paper describes creative expression workshops using myth to facilitate storytelling and drawing activities for recently arrived immigrant and refugee children. A qualitative analysis of the children's creative output suggests that the use of...
It describes itself as the only organization in Massachusetts that “brings together groups serving immigrants and refugees from many parts of the world, of various nationalities, races, and ethnicities. MIRA is a dynamic, multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalition that actively involves hundreds of grassro...
“While the funding cuts happened, the folks these agencies are seeing now are not going away,” said Debbie Douglas, executive director of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, which has more than 240 member organizations.
The demands of exile and the culture of labor radicalism and antifascism in mid-century New York transformed exile Spanish Civil War women’s inherited gendered relationship with the state. Initially, the traditional framework of womanhood drew women together to help Civil War refugees. In the cour...
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump demonized communities of color, immigrants and Muslims.Hate violence against Muslims, Sikhs, and other South Asiansspiked after the 2016 election. The Trump Administration has funneled Asian American asylum seekersinto detention,deported Southeast Asian refugeeswho’...
The impact of torture on post-traumatic stress symptoms in war-affected Tamil refugees and immigrants The present study examines the effect of torture in generating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms by comparing its impact with that of other tr... D Silove,Z Steel,P Mcgorry,......