Overview
- The multidisciplinary approach, which is copiously illustrated by case material and field research, incorporates the findings of a major new survey of mental health and social care for refugees and asylum seekers among many other studies
Part of the book series: International and Cultural Psychology (ICUP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Although forced migration is not new in human history it has become, in our time, one of the world's major problems. In the last few decades, armed conflict and political unrest have created vast numbers of asylum seekers, refugees and displaced persons. This has led, in turn to increasing involvement of professional care workers and agencies, both governmental and nongovernmental. While there is no doubt on the part of helping parties that care is necessary, there is considerable debate about the kind of care that is needed. This book presents a critical review of mental health care provisions for people who have had to leave their homeland, and explores the controversies surrounding this topic. Providing fresh perspectives on an age old problem, this book covers humanitarian aid and reconstruction programs as well as service provision in host countries. It is of interest to all those who provide health services, create policy, and initiate legislation for these populations.
Reviews
"This book is relevant to all those working with refugees and displaced persons amongst health and social work professionals as well as other care givers and policy makers. In almost all chapters the limitations of the Western concept of traumatic stress with its strong accent on postramatic stress disorder is emphasized. Furthermore, the important role. of the cultural context is illustrated. The advantage of focising on practival problems rather than emotion is another leading theme."
-Wybrand Op den Velde, medical consltant of Stichting 1940-1945 and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of War Trauma Foundation.
Intervention 2005, Volume 3, Number 2
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
David Ingleby is Professor of Intercultural Psychology at Utrecht University. After working for the Medical Research Council in London and teaching in Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, he moved to Holland in 1982 to take up a chair in Developmental Psychology. Since 1991 he has concentrated on issues of migration and culture and was awarded his present chair in 1999. Together with Charles Watters he teaches in the European MA network on ‘Migration, Mental Health and Social Care’. He has a lifelong interest in the social dimension of psychology and in interdisciplinary research and practice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forced Migration and Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Rethinking the Care of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Editors: David Ingleby
Series Title: International and Cultural Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b99490
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-22692-7Published: 07 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3556-4Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-22693-4Published: 27 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1571-5507
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7984
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 218
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Clinical Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling