- Title
- The child asylum seeker: psychological and developmental impact of immigration detention
- Creator
- Newman, Louise K.; Steel, Zachary
- Relation
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America Vol. 17, Issue 3, p. 665-683
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2008.02.009
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Asylum-seeking children are one of the most vulnerable groups of displaced persons. The experience of being a detainee, with limited ways of communicating one's plight, shapes the expression of distress. Clinicians need to see the distress and symptoms of mental disorder as emerging in the context of the detention environment rather than within a traditional medical model. The use of diagnostic labels without elaboration does not provide an adequate account of the child's difficulties. The clinician has an important role in bearing witness to the harm done to detainees as well as trying to prevent harm in whatever way possible.
- Subject
- child asylum seekers; children in immigration; psychological impact of children in detention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41307
- Identifier
- uon:4726
- Identifier
- ISSN:1056-4993
- Language
- eng
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