Mental Health Facts on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, & Survivors of Forced Displacement Worldwide

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Mental Health Facts on Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Survivors of Forced Displacement

Source: American Psychiatric Association (APA)

Date Published: 11/2019

Format: PDF

Annotation: This four-page fact sheet details how most of the world's 70.8 million refugees, asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors, and other survivors of forced displacement will not receive needed mental health care due to scarcity of services and stigma against mental health care. It discusses systems of care for the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers, and strengths and protective factors common to refugees and asylum-seekers. [less]

URL: https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Cultural-Competency/Mental-Health-Disparities/Mental-Health-Facts-for-Refugees.pdf

Type: Fact Sheet

ID: 20453. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.