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Guide to Health Workers providing care for asylum seekers and refugeesDr. Angela Burnett, 2002
Excellent site: provides information on a range of issues including support for health workers, mental health needs, legal advice, working with interpreters.
UNHCRRefugee Resettlement: An International Handbook to Guide Reception and Integration: Chapter 3:1 Planning for Optimal Mental Health3rd September 2002
Guidelines (very detailed) include: responding to refugee-related trauma, approaches in providing support, supporting resettled refugees to access psychological services, identifying mental illness, supporting children. [slow to load].
UNCHRImplementation of UNHCR's policy and guidelines on refugee children
See section entitled psychosocial well being of children.
UNCHRRefugee children: guidelines on protection and care1994
Guidelines on all aspects of care for refugee children, for mental health see particularly chapter 4 psychosocial well being; chapter 5 health (including mental health) and nutrition; chapter 8 legal status, p71 special needs of refugee children.
Amnesty International statement on detention of asylum seekers in Australia, 4 May 2002.
There are also major concerns about how the detention system affects the mental and physical health of the detainees. There is a growing body of evidence that prolonged detention of unspecified duration, particularly when people are already traumatised by past persecution and do not know what the future holds for them, can lead to serious, physical and psychological damage.
The Mental Health Act Commission
The Mental Health Act Commission has adopted the mission statement, 'safeguarding the interests of all people detained under the Mental Health Act'. The Commission's remit is to keep under review the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 as it relates to detained patients, and to meet with and interview detained patients in private.
Migrant and Refugee Communties Forum and CVS Consultants:The mental health of refugees and newly arrived communities.
A detailed report. The project was commissioned by the Department of Health as one of a series of exercises intended to investigate and offer general guidance on different aspects of ethnicity and health. It cover a wide range of issues including Pathways to Care, the role of refugee communities and individuals, cultural considerations outreach, health awareness and prevention strategies, practical support, assessment arrangements, children and young people, bicultural and transcultural counselling. Over 100 pages (450k). (Relatively slow to load).
Royal College of PsychiatristsDemoralised asylum seekers develop mental health problems
The practical difficulties facing asylum seekers when they arrive in this country can be more harmful to their mental health than the pain and suffering they fled.
Royal College of PsychiatristsWhat the Royal College of Psychiatrists will do to meet the general and specific duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000
Outlines recommendations, policies etc and how they will function accordingly.
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