Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims

by John P. Wilson and Boris Drozdek

Book Overview

Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD, they are not systemized, and not widely known to professionals in the field. A publication offering practical guidelines for the treatment of torture victims...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415943973
• ISBN13: 9780415943970
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"