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Designing Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Migrants and Refugees

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Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration

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Abstract

Migration has become a ubiquitous phenomenon worldwide. Stress experienced by migrants in home countries, during migratory process and in receiving countries might have detrimental consequences for their health and stipulates an increased need in utilization of health and mental health care services by migrant populations, which, in turn, determines the need to reconsider services provided to vulnerable migrants and refugees (VMR). In this chapter we discuss challenges for service setup in mental health care for VMR arising both on service and patients’ side and propose possible ways to respond to these challenges. We ground our discussion on the results of VMR’s needs analysis and barriers to health care project conducted by MyHealth consortium in four European sites and review some examples of good practice in mental health care for migrants adopted in different countries that face similar problems.

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  1. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    O. Ananyeva

  2. Babel Day Centre, Athens, Greece

    N. Gionakis

  3. International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne’s University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic

    N. K. Movsisyan

  4. Servei de Psiquiatria, University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

    A. Qureshi

  5. Psychiatric University Clinic of Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin, Germany

    M. Schouler-Ocak

  6. Tropical Medicine and International Health Unit Vall d’Hebron-Drassanes, PROSICS, Catalan Health Institute, Barcelona, Spain

    N. Serre-Delcor

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco

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  2. Institute of Psychiatry King's College London, London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

  3. School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK

    Rachel Tribe

  4. ASL Provinciale di Foggia, Foggia, Napoli, Italy

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Ananyeva, O., Gionakis, N., Movsisyan, N.K., Qureshi, A., Schouler-Ocak, M., Serre-Delcor, N. (2021). Designing Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Migrants and Refugees. In: Moussaoui, D., Bhugra, D., Tribe, R., Ventriglio, A. (eds) Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration. Mental Health and Illness Worldwide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0750-7_21-1

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