Don’t automatically label Syrian refugees as mentally ill

Syrian refugees and information precarity

This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant inform...

Syrian mental health professionals as refugees in Jordan: establishing mental health services for fellow refugees

While the con£ict in Syria rages on, one psychiatrist and several psychologists, all of themSyrian refugees, have founded ‘Syria Bright Future’ , a volunteer organisation that provides psychosocial and mental health services to Syrian refugees in Jordan. This ¢eld report describes how the organisation assists families in settling after their harsh journey, in adapting to newlivingconditions and...

Being Mentally Ill

Incorporating sociological theory into that of psychiatric illness is particularly difficult. It also goes against the grain for psychiatrists who were trained as doctors and had their attention focused on individual differences, rather than on the social system in which the patient is involved. Society, too, in its management of the mentally ill, accepts the individual disease model.

Global assistance in caring for Syrian refugees.

Main text In 2013, while I was the Minister of Health and Minister of Environment in Jordan, the majority of the neonates at neonate unit at the Mafraq Maternity and Neonate Hospital in northern Jordan were borne to Syrian women (Syrian refugees needed up to 18 of the 20 beds most of the time during that year). This makes me agree with the work of Fuat Emre Canpolat et al. which concluded that ...

Syrian refugees desperately need our help.