Refugee Health Ta – Preflight Flight And Resettlement

Traditionally the refugee experience is divided into three categories.

Adolescents may also have participated in violence, voluntarily or not, as child soldiers or militants. Preflight phase may include, let’s say, physical and emotional trauma to the individual or family, the witnessing of murder, and social upheaval. Children and adolescents are often separated from their families and at the mercy of others for care and protection. Resettlement process includes challenges like the loss of culture, community, and language as well as the need to adapt to a completely new and foreign environment. Known children often straddle the old and new cultures as they learn new languages and cultural norms more quickly than their elders. Although, all of the experiences may play a role in the acquisition of, or protection from mental health conditions in every individual within a refugee population. Besides, flight involves an uncertain journey from the host country to the resettlement site and may involve arduous travel, refugee camps, and detention centers.

The more common mental health diagnoses associated with refugee populations include ‘post traumatic’ stress disorder, major depression, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, adjustment disorder, and somatization.

The incidence of diagnoses varies with different populations and their experiences. Children and adolescents often have higher levels with various investigations revealing rates of PTSD from ‘5090’percent and major depression from ‘6 40’. Risk factors for the development of mental health problems include the overall amount of traumas, delayed asylum application process, detention, and the loss of culture and support systems. Different studies have shown rates of PTSD and major depression in settled refugees to range from 10 40 and 515percentage.

There are many challenges in the detection and effective treatment of mental health problems in refugees.

There’s little evidence for the efficacy problems and then implementing evidence based interventions, both at an individual and community level, for these common and frequently debilitating diagnoses.

While coming from countries as disparate as the former Soviet Union, Somalia, and Vietnam, since 2000, are settled throughout the.

I am sure that the identification and treatment of mental health problems has lagged far behind, while the screening for and treatment of infectious diseases had been studied and practiced for decades. Complex and varied cultural contexts and languages, scattered refugee populations, and the relative lack of evidence based interventions have made it difficult to carry out concerted and standardized efforts. Besides, the often traumatic reasons for leaving the host country as well as the potentially long and hazardous journey and process of resettlement increase the risk for refugees to suffer from loads of mental health problems.