Refugee Women and Their Mental Health: Shattered Societies, Shattered

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Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees’experiences as... Read more

Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees’experiences as women. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health begins to fill this paucity of information on female refugees’experiences.

A book of immediate interest, Refugee Women and Their Mental Health focuses on understanding the plight of women refugees around the world, with an emphasis on mental health. The book adds successful and innovative treatment and recovery models for these women survivors.

Some of the chapters are written by women who are therapists/psychologists now and who have been refugees themselves. This adds additional insight into the plight and resulting mental health problems of refugee women. The chapters cover a vast range of topics:

torture and sexual abuse as refugees/victims of state violence
elderly women refugees
immigration law and women refugees
first-person narratives
the transformation of identity
successful creative treatment programs

It becomes clear that women refugees from all over the world under different political events and circumstances share common values and have similar mental health needs. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health explores processes of recovery from the traumas experienced by these women and offers a variety of models for the application of feminist theory to the plight of women refugees. Experienced therapists of women and those in training to be therapists will want to read this book. The topics of refugee women rarely comes up in training programs, so the information in this book is vital for therapists, policy makers, and other service providers and professors of psychology of women, immigration and social work issues, and women and mental health issues.

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I. Introduction
Refugee Women and Mental Health: Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives
A Personal Introduction
Roots Uprooted: The Psychological Impact of Historical/Political Dislocation
II. Understanding Refugees: From the Inside Out
Coping With Stress: A Refugee’s Story
Birth, Transformation, and Death of Refugee Identity: Women and Girls of the Intifada(in ital)
Women in Exile and Their Children
Rape and Domestic Violence: The Experience of Refugee Women
Soviet Jewish Refugee Women: Searching for Security
Displaced Women in Settings of Continuing Armed Conflict
Fifty Years Later: Am I Still an Immigrant?
III. Working With Refugees: The Challenges and Rewards
The Balancing Act: Plight of Afghan Women Refugees
Traces of Khmer Women’s Imaginary: Finding Our Way in the West
From Helpless Victim to Empowered Survivor: Oral History as a Treatment for Survivors of Torture
On Trial in the Promised Land: Seeking Asylum
IV. Journeys to Recovery: The Healing Process
Testimonio, A Bridge Between Psychotherapy and Sociotherapy
Healing the Wounds of the Mahantdori(in ital)
Women and Political Torture: Work With Refugee Survivors in Exile
Markers of Successful Aging Among Vietnamese Refugee Women
V. Diagnostic Studies Across Cultures
Treatment for Psychosomatic Blindness Among Cambodian Refugee Women
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Salvadoran Women: Empirical Evidence and Description of Treatment
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnamese Women
Healing Their Wounds: Guatemalan Refugee Women as Political Activists
Reference Notes Included

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Oliva M Espin, Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum

Refugee Women and Their Mental Health Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives

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