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The Southeast Asian Refugees and Community Mental Health
This article provides a summary of the descriptive information currently available to community mental health workers about the Southeast Asian refugees, A brief overview of what is known about mental health and migration and refugee status is followed by a consideration of the psychological adjustment of the Southeast Asian refugees and then a description of recent mental health intervention s...
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Skin test reactions to PPD applied by Mantoux techniques were compared with reactions to tuberculin tine test (PPD-tine); tuberculin, old tine test (OT tine); Aplitest; and Mono-Vacc, tuberculin, old (Mono-Vacc) in newly arrived refugees from Cambodia and Laos. The reaction to Mantoux test was accepted as the "true reading" and compared to the reaction size to one of the multiple puncture tests...
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There are pitfalls in the singular application of western categories in diagnosing psychiatric disorders and distress among refugees. Based on my research with Cambodian refugees I argue that cultural bereavement, by mapping the subjective experience of refugees, gives meaning to the refugee's distress, clarifies the 'structure' of the person's reactions to loss, frames psychiatric disorder in ...
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Research and clinical information pertaining to mental health needs of Asians residing in the United States is limited but growing. There is a tendency to group all persons of Asian descent together and, therefore, the empirical literature does not sufficiently address the mental health needs in specific subgroups. The focus of this article is to understand the mental health needs of one subgro...
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The current study examines the risk-inducing effects of unemployment and the protective effects of language facility on the mental health of Southeast Asian refugees resettling in Canada. Rates of depression and of unemployment declined dramatically during the first decade after arrival. Although language fluency also improved during this period, approximately 8% of the sample spoke no English ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
سال: 1983
ISSN: 1920-7336,0229-5113
DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.21084