Resettling Refugees and Safeguarding their Mental Health: LessonS Learned from the Canadian Refugee Resettlement Project

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 539-583

  Beiser, Morton ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

integration; mental health; refugee; resettlement; Southeast Asian

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CANADA; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIETY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIOLENCE;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CANADA; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREJUDICE; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 73549100882     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461509351373     Document Type: Article

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