A systematic review of socio-ecological factors contributing to risk and protection of the mental health of refugee children and adolescents

F Scharpf, E Kaltenbach, A Nickerson… - Clinical Psychology …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decade, millions of children and adolescents have been forced to flee from
protracted or newly erupted violent conflicts. Forcibly displaced children are particularly …

Resilience as a protective factor against the development of psychopathology among refugees

J Arnetz, Y Rofa, B Arnetz, M Ventimiglia… - The Journal of nervous …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Refugee research, to date, has predominantly focused on factors that make refugees more
vulnerable for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or psychological …

Understanding the role of acculturative stress on refugee youth mental health: A systematic review and ecological approach to assessment and intervention

A d'Abreu, S Castro-Olivo… - School psychology …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we conduct a systematic review of the extant literature on the risk and
protective factors that impact the healthy resettlement of refugee children around the world …

Resilience of refugees displaced in the developing world: a qualitative analysis of strengths and struggles of urban refugees in Nepal

FC Thomas, B Roberts, NP Luitel, N Upadhaya… - Conflict and …, 2011 - Springer
Background Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing are key concerns in displaced
populations. Despite urban refugees constituting more than half of the world's refugees …

Resilience research with South African youth: Caveats and ethical complexities

LC Theron - South African Journal of Psychology, 2012 - journals.co.za
Studies of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to major challenges commonly
associated with negative outcomes, have proliferated in recent years. Despite the popularity …

Distinguishing differences in pathways to resilience among Canadian youth

M Ungar, M Brown, L Liebenberg, M Cheung… - Canadian journal of …, 2008 - cjcmh.com
As part of an 11-country qualitative study of resilience among at-risk youth, 19 Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal Canadian adolescents were interviewed. In this paper, we report on the …

A community-based qualitative study of intergenerational resilience with Palestinian refugee families facing structural violence and historical trauma

DG Atallah - Transcultural psychiatry, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study was to explore resilience processes in Palestinian refugee families
living under Israeli occupation for multiple generations. Qualitative methods, critical …

[PDF][PDF] Cross-cultural consultation leading to the development of a valid measure of youth resilience: The International Resilience Project

M Ungar, L Liebenberg - Studia psychologica, 2009 - academia.edu
In this paper, an innovative 14-site, eleven country, collaborative investigation of resilience
is described. As part of a larger mixed methods study to understand resilience as a social …

Resilience and acculturation among unaccompanied refugee minors

S Keles, O Friborg, T Idsøe, S Sirin… - … journal of behavioral …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study was designed to understand differences between unaccompanied
refugees who retained or achieved good mental health (healthy or resilient) and those who …

[PDF][PDF] The International Resilience Project: A mixed methods approach to the study of resilience across cultures

M Ungar, L Liebenberg - Handbook for working with children and youth …, 2005 - iiqi.org
Typically, studies of resilience have employed designs that integrate established test
instruments with demonstrated reliability and validity from studies of mental and social …