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Trauma and survival in African humanitarian entrants to Australia
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posted on 2023-05-22, 17:57 authored by Copping, AN, Shakespeare- Finch, JEFormer refugees have been resettled in Australia since the 1940’s through the Humanitarian Migration Stream. This chapter highlights the impact of forced migration and the refugee experience of trauma on survival. The journey from pre-migration crises, to the process of fleeing one’s country, through to the challenges associated with resettlement, can have a significant impact on the mental health of Humanitarian Entrants to Australia. Differences in culture can have an impact on the meaning constructed from these experiences, and on help-seeking behaviour and preferred methods of intervention. To date, Western mental health services have used an understanding of trauma based on pathology and largely individualist intervention techniques. In this chapter, however, we seek to understand the experience of trauma for former refugees from a salutogenic perspective, and acknowledge community based coping methods and the strengths and resilience of former refugees. Using the construct of posttraumatic growth, adaptive factors of strength, religion, compassion, and new possibilities are identified as relevant to African Humanitarian Entrants in Australia.
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Publication title
Mass Trauma: Impact and Recovery IssuesEditors
KM Gow and M CelenskiPagination
331-348ISBN
9781620815571Department/School
School of Health SciencesPublisher
NOVA Science PublishersPlace of publication
United StatesExtent
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