What Research tells us about the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Sudanese Refugees: A Literature Review

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 300-315

  Tempany, Madeleine ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

coping; mental disorder; mental health; refugees; Sudan; wellbeing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SUDAN;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COUNSELING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; REFUGEES; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649494486     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461509105820     Document Type: Article

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