Life-threatening loss of function in refugee children: Another expression of pervasive refusal syndrome?

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-350

  Bodegård, Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abnormal illness behaviour; Devitalization; Mothering disorder; Pervasive refusal; Refugee children

Indexed keywords

ALIMEMAZINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; MIDAZOLAM; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DELUSION; DYING; FAMILY; FAMILY LIFE; FANTASY; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INJURY; LEARNING; LETHALITY; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MOTHER; PERVASIVE REFUSAL SYNDROME; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REFUGEE; REVIEW;

EID: 23044484812     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104505053753     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Almquist, K., Hessle, M., & Gustavsson, T. (2003). 'The situation for children seeking asylum in Sweden'. Open letter from an expert conference to Jan O. Karlsson, Minister for Migration and Integration, Lars Engstedt, Minister for Social Welfare and Health and Berit Adnor, Minister for Family and Children [in Swedish].
2. Emde, R.N., Polak, P.R., & Spitz, R.A. (1965). Anaclitic depression in an infant raised in an institution. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 4, 545-553.
3. La Planche, J., & Pontalis, J.-B. (1973). Gain from illness: Primary and secondary. In The language of psychoanalysis (pp. 182-184). London: Hogarth Press.
4. Lask, B., Britten, C., Kroll, L., Magagna, J., & Tranter, M. (1991). Children with pervasive refusal. Archives of Disease of Childhood, 66, 866-869.
5. Lazarus, R.S., & Folkman, S. (1991). The concept of coping. In R.S Lazarus (Ed.), Stress and coping: An anthology (pp. 183-206). New York: Columbia University Press.
6. Lundin, B., & Croner, S. (2001). Münchausen syndrome by proxy - A literature review and Swedish case histories. Läkartidningen, 95, 2302-2311 [in Swedish].
7. Nunn, K.P., & Thompson, S.L. (1996). The pervasive refusal syndrome: Learned helplessness and hopelessness. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1, 121-132.
8. Nunn, K.P., Thompson, S.L., Moore, S.G., English, M., Burke, E.A., & Byrne, N. (1998). Managing pervasive refusal syndrome: Strategies of hope. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 3, 229-249.
9. Ogden, T.H. (1978). A developmental view on identifications resulting from maternal impingements. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 7, 486-507.
10. Ogden, T.H. (1979). On projective identification. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 60, 357-373.
11. Rosenberg, D.A. (1987). Web of deceit: A literature review of MSbP. Child Abuse and Neglect, 11, 547-563.
12. Sereny, G. (2000). Stolen children. In The German trauma. Experiences and reflections 1938-2000 (pp. 25-52). London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press 2000.
13. Shaffer, D., Gould, M.S., Brasic, J., Ambrosini, P., Fisher, P., Bird, H., & Aluwahlia, S. (1985). Children's Global Asessment Scale - C-GAS. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 1, 747-748.
14. Thompson, S.L., & Nunn, K.P. (1997). The pervasive refusal syndrome: The RAHS experience. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2, 145-165.