Background: Young adult refugees have suboptimal primary care use in early resettlement—domains of integration influence engagement during this time.

Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings rupture, catastrophe, mass displacement can obscure longer term structural forms violence, as colonialism gender-based violence. This article explores the...

In recent years there has been increased attention to the impact of migration on mental health. However, existing research uses an intra-individual lens, focuses poor health refugees and asylum seekers, fails address limits traditional therapy. The aim present study was a gap in literature by focusing following question: how might human rights approach help us identify policies, practices, stru...

The paper presents the process of refugee identity transformation in the mirror of the Slovene refugee politics. It has been discussed that the problem of the refugee mental health can not be identified with the psychopathological phenomenon of the PTSD. The identity processing of the refugees changes within the relational system of the cross-cultural communication. That has been determined by ...

BACKGROUND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a major health problem among refugees worldwide. After resettlement, the prevalence of PTSD remains high despite the fact that various PTSD treatments are known to be effective. METHODS We examined the course of PTSD and the role of mental health care utilisation at a 7-year interval (2003-2010) among a cohort of refugees from Iran, Afghanis...

OBJECTIVES To thematically synthesise primary qualitative studies that explore challenges and facilitators for health professionals providing primary healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers in high-income countries. DESIGN Systematic review and qualitative thematic synthesis. METHODS Searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Web of Science. Search terms were combined for qualitat...