The Mental Health of Refugees: Ecological Approaches To Healing and Adaptation

by Lisa M. Rasco and Kenneth E. Miller

Book Overview

It is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have documented high rates of psychological distress among these survivors of extreme violence and forced migration, yet very few have access to clinic-based mental health care. In any case, clinic-based services cannot adequately address the constellation of displacement-related stressors that affect refugees...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805841733
• ISBN13: 9780805841732
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.7"