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Psychosocial problems in traumatized refugee families: overview of risks and some recommendations for support services

This article is an abridged version of a report by an advisory council to the German government on the psychosocial problems facing refugee families from war zones who have settled in Germany. It omits the detailed information contained in the report about matters that are specific to the German hea...

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Autores principales: Fegert, J. M., Diehl, C., Leyendecker, B., Hahlweg, K., Prayon-Blum, V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29344083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0210-3
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Hahlweg, K.
Prayon-Blum, V.
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description This article is an abridged version of a report by an advisory council to the German government on the psychosocial problems facing refugee families from war zones who have settled in Germany. It omits the detailed information contained in the report about matters that are specific to the German health system and asylum laws, and includes just those insights and strategies that may be applicable to assisting refugees in other host countries as well. The focus is on understanding the developmental risks faced by refugee children when they or family members are suffering from trauma-related psychological disorders, and on identifying measures that can be taken to address these risks. The following recommendations are made: recognizing the high level of psychosocial problems present in these families, providing family–friendly living accommodations, teaching positive parenting skills, initiating culture-sensitive interventions, establishing training programs to support those who work with refugees, expanding the availability of trained interpreters, facilitating access to education and health care, and identifying intervention requirements through screening and other measures.
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spelling pubmed-57656012018-01-17 Psychosocial problems in traumatized refugee families: overview of risks and some recommendations for support services Fegert, J. M. Diehl, C. Leyendecker, B. Hahlweg, K. Prayon-Blum, V. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Commentary This article is an abridged version of a report by an advisory council to the German government on the psychosocial problems facing refugee families from war zones who have settled in Germany. It omits the detailed information contained in the report about matters that are specific to the German health system and asylum laws, and includes just those insights and strategies that may be applicable to assisting refugees in other host countries as well. The focus is on understanding the developmental risks faced by refugee children when they or family members are suffering from trauma-related psychological disorders, and on identifying measures that can be taken to address these risks. The following recommendations are made: recognizing the high level of psychosocial problems present in these families, providing family–friendly living accommodations, teaching positive parenting skills, initiating culture-sensitive interventions, establishing training programs to support those who work with refugees, expanding the availability of trained interpreters, facilitating access to education and health care, and identifying intervention requirements through screening and other measures. BioMed Central 2018-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5765601/ /pubmed/29344083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0210-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Fegert, J. M.
Diehl, C.
Leyendecker, B.
Hahlweg, K.
Prayon-Blum, V.
Psychosocial problems in traumatized refugee families: overview of risks and some recommendations for support services
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title_short Psychosocial problems in traumatized refugee families: overview of risks and some recommendations for support services
title_sort psychosocial problems in traumatized refugee families: overview of risks and some recommendations for support services
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29344083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0210-3
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