War is the main cause in the creation of child refugee. It is also known that war is the primary cause of child injuries, death and loss of family members. Being born abroad in unknown places, also play a role in depriving children of a legal home. The trauma of being a refugee child can cause detrimental changes in the mental health of a child and over all development. This article focuses on the impact of the Syrian armed conflict on the mental health and psychosocial condition of Syrian refugees’ children. Also, this article explores the struggles of several refugees’ families and their children. It was determined that mental health services can be key to restoring basic psychological functioning to support resilience and positive coping …show more content…
An assessment of the mental health and psychosocial needs of refugee Syrians children and adolescents in Jordan revealed persistent fear, anger, lack of interest in activities, and hopelessness. Mental health service were provided to some Syrian children by the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT). During the course of the services, many children and adolescents express feeling a great sense of responsibility for their family members. They also expressed to feel a great sense of responsibility towards caring for their family members and the frustration of not being able to talk about their feelings and concerns, to avoid stressing out their parents. Family dynamics and roles seemed to be highly deteriorated, giving these children unwanted responsibilities and safety concerns about family members. At the end of the study, it was revealed that after several months of services at the CVT, comparing results at discharge to the results during admission, a vast majority of children reported a decrease in feeling afraid, feeling shame, feeling guilt, and unhappiness. Helping them reconnect with themselves, and
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Living without loved ones and their precious belongings will make refugees face the point of turning “inside out”. All refugees have lost loved ones and their precious belongings. For many refugees they lose their parent’s or siblings. Some don’t have family there anymore so they lose their belongings that remind them of their home, family, and country.
“War torn nations left bullet-ridden ruins, native people forced to flee and find new homes in foreign places-this is the reality of the refugees.” First of all what is a refugee? Refugees are normal everyday people who are forced to flee their homes because they are afraid to stay in their home country. And when they do flee, they may be obliged to leave behind family members, friends, a home, a job, and other special possessions. One of these refugees is a war-torn child who suffered the harsh realities of the 1975 Vietnam war.
I was born in the Republic of Congo, where my family fled from Rwanda to escape genocide. Growing up as a refugee in Congo was a daily hardship. My parents struggled to provide the basic necessities for my four siblings and me. The stress of living as refugees began to tear my family apart. My parents divorced in 2005, when I was only five years old. My mother struggled to keep our family together and to provide for all of us. She passionately believed in the power of education. She would try to scrape together enough money to send us to school. There were many times when me and my brothers would help sell jugs of water in the streets of Brazzaville to make enough money for school fees and lunches.
Anh Do has experienced a great deal of adversity throughout his life, but through this he has had immense help from his family and friends to help him become the man he is today. The Happiest Refugee written by Anh Do, shows the importance of friends and family. The book provides the viewers with a serious yet humorous recount on the hard journeys Anh and his family had faced, such as being trapped on a small boat full of people which took them away from Vietnam while doing this being robbed of their belongings. Through the book it is strongly shown that family is important and should be number one priority and should be loving and supporting of each other regardless of the situation. The main examples to be explored are when Anhs father helped Anhs mother start the clothing business, when Anh got a job to support his at the time single mother, and the fact that Anh’s father always made time to show and teach the children life lessons.
There should therefore be emphasis placed on assessing the mental health of these kids because of the adverse experiences in their home countries and the distress experienced in an alien country or culture in which they find themselves. Weaver and Burns (2001) thus argue that social workers need a greater understanding of the impact of trauma to be effective with asylum seekers in general and UASC. However, many people who are exposed to traumatic experiences do not necessarily develop mental issues so social workers should be cautious about making assumptions as studies shows that most asylum seekers point to social and economic factors as important rather than psychological
Have you ever wondered about Refugees?Refugees is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.Ha is a charter in the book inside out back again by Thanhha Lal.Ha is a 10 year old refugee from vietnam.Ha is a selfish little girl.She doesn't really do what she´s told.When the refugees fled their lives turned inside out. When they moved their lives turned back again.
The social problem we have chosen to address is the mental health status of refugees. Refugees are exposed to a significant amount of trauma due to fear, war, persecution, torture, and relocating. The mental health illnesses that can affect refugees due to exposure to traumas include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Research indicated that refugees relocating from war-torn countries are particularly vulnerable to mental health concerns because many have experienced early traumas and face further post-traumas after relocation (Cummings, et al., 2011). However, despite the prevalence of mental health issues concerning refugees, mental health needs often go unrecognized and untreated.
All around the world, people are being forced to leave their homes due to war, persecution, and unequal treatment; these people are called refugees. When they flee, refugees leave behind their homes, family, friends, and personal possessions. They make risky escapes and their lives could be easily taken from them. Refugees often become distant and depressed as they experience these traumatic events. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, ten year-old Hà and her family live in South Vietnam: a war torn country. Hà was like any ten year-old; she liked to stay close to her mother and got jealous when things didn’t go her way. She loves her home and wanted to stay, even when the war between the North and South got closer to home.
Today we will discuss how culture impacted on Kurdish community mental health. Kurds are an ethnic group who was originated in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Many Turks immigrated to the other parts of the world to get away from the violence in their native countries and to secure a safe future for their children. Countries like Australia and Canada provide medical data on Kurd’s mental health. This data compares the information between the Kurds who immigrated and the ones that were born in these countries. Many immigrated Kurds have rep...
Lives of refugees are turned inside out by the violence
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...ermore, the conflict provoked a high risk of be prolonged psychologically in a serious brain disturbance. It has ruined their any chances of getting rid of this trauma by compromising any of them academic future. The many children facing this “massive war traumas show evidence of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder” (PTSD).