Forced Migration and Mental Health: Rethinking the Care of Refugees and Displaced Persons

1. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION .......................................................... 1David Ingleby PART I. HUMANITARIAN AID AND RECONSTRUCTION 2. FROM TRAUMA TO SURVIVAL AND ADAPTATION: Towards a framework for guiding mental health initiatives in post-conflict societies ..................... 29Derrick Silove 3. TRANSFORMING LOCAL AND GLOBAL DISCOURSES: Reassessing the PTSD movement in Bosnia and Croatia ................................... 53Paul Stubbs 4. TRAUMATIC STRESS IN CONTEXT: A study of unaccompanied minors from Southern Sudan....... 67Olle Jeppsson and Anders Hjern 5. MEETING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH FIGHTING FORCES:Some lessons from Sierra Leone ...... 81Ian Clifton-Everest PART II. SERVICE PROVISION IN HOST COUNTRIES 6. 'MY WHOLE BODY IS SICK... MY LIFE IS NOT GOOD': A Rwandan asylum seeker attends a psychiatric clinic in London ...... 97Derek Summerfield 7. MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN IN EXILE ...... . 115Anders Hjern and Olle Jeppsson 8. GETTING CLOSER: Methods of research with refugees and asylum seekers ...... 129Sander Kramer 9. KURDISH WOMEN REFUGEES: Obstacles and opportunities ................ 149Choman Hardi 10. BEYOND THE PERSONAL PAIN: Integrating social and political concerns in therapy with refugees ..................... 169Julia Bala 11. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE UK: Lessons from transcultural psychiatry ..... 183Suman Fernando 12. MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROVISIONS FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS: A comparative study ...... 193David Ingleby and Charles Watters