An Intervention Supporting the Mental Health of Children with a Refugee Background

Serneels, Geertrui; O’Driscoll, Julia Villanueva; Imeraj, Lindita; Vanfraussen, Katrien; Lampo, Annik

doi:10.1080/01612840.2017.1285969

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“…The clinical symptoms and expression of psychiatric disorders in children, as in adults, are strongly influenced by the cultural setting in which they grow up and develop (Kirmayer et al., 2012). Cultural distance, fragility induced by migration, and greater exposure to traumatic events during migration are all elements that can make the management of migrant patients challenging (Centre Primo Levi & Médecins du Monde, 2018; Fazel, Reed, Panter-Brick, & Stein, 2012; Kirmayer, Guzder, & Rousseau, 2014; Radjack, Rizzi, Harf, & Moro, 2017; Serneels, Villanueva O’Driscoll, Imeraj, Vanfraussen, & Lampo, 2017).…”

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Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Carrera

Lévesque-Daniel

Moro

et al. 2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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Transcultural psychotherapy is an original therapeutic technique designed to respond to difficulties encountered in psychiatric treatment for migrants. Today, this psychotherapy is formalized and it is in use at numerous sites in France and internationally. An increasing number of professionals are seeking training in this method. We sought to explore the experiences of these trainees, at their entry in the group and during their training. This qualitative study used focus groups to interview trainees participating in a transcultural psychotherapy training group. The thematic analysis generated two domains of experience: the emotional and personal experience within the transcultural group, including the private feelings of the trainee-participants, their initial difficulties, and the changes in these feelings; and their perception of this specific type of care, that is, their perspectives on transcultural psychotherapy and its most original aspects. Based on the narratives of trainees in this program, we conclude that becoming a transcultural psychotherapist involves a process not only of cultural decentering but also of professional decentering. This decentering cannot be learned theoretically: it must be experienced, for a long enough time to become imbued with it and to allow oneself to modify one’s practices. After sufficient time in the group, the trainees succeed in extricating themselves, little by little, from their ethnocentric vision of psychotherapy, and come to tolerate and then integrate new ways of doing and thinking.

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Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Carrera

Lévesque-Daniel

Moro

et al. 2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…In particular, Italy has developed cultural mediators, as in Milan (Crinali) (41). Germany and the Netherlands are trying to guarantee greater cultural openness in public psychiatric facilities (5,42), while in Belgium this initiative depends more on non-profit organizations (9).…”

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“…Added to that are pre-and post-migration factors that act as social determinants of mental health: exposure to violence and traumatic migration experiences, the process of acculturation, situations of loss and mourning, adverse socioeconomic conditions, conflicts due to cultural differences, discrimination, and social isolation (3,(8)(9)(10).…”

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Clinical Approaches to Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Care and Specificities of French Transcultural Consultations: A Scoping Review

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Background: Cultural context substantially affects the experience and clinical expression of psychiatric diseases, while cultural factors limit both access to and effectiveness of care, especially for migrant families requiring specific types of services. We conducted a scoping review on psychiatric services adapted to cultural diversity, to compare these models of care to the French Transcultural Psychotherapy model. Methods: Systematic electronic search of databases (PubMed and PsycINFO), manual search of archives of journals dealing with transcultural psychiatry, and consultations with international experts, to identify all papers describing clinical models devoted to psychiatric care for migrants, published between January 1990 and October 2018. Narrative synthesis of the included articles. Results: The study included 29 papers. The specificities of psychiatric services for migrant families are linked to the host country's migration patterns and citizenship model. In English-speaking countries, specialized services for ethnic minorities offer ethnic matching of the therapist and patient. In Canada, indirect transcultural consultation services have existed since the late 1990s. Australia emphasizes the networking of consultation services and professional training in cultural competence, while the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark) focus management on trauma. In France, psychotherapy services, with flexible numbers of therapists involved according to the situation, have existed since 1990. Discussion: Most initiatives place emphasis on training and supervision, in an indirect approach not specifically focused on the patient, or offer cultural matching of patient and therapist. The French transcultural approach, on the contrary, makes the family's culture and its cultural diversity an integral part of the therapy process.

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“…In particular, Italy has developed cultural mediators, as in Milan (Crinali) (35). Germany and the Netherlands are trying to guarantee greater cultural openness in public mental health facilities (5,36), while in Belgium this initiative depends more on non-profit organizations (9).…”

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Clinical approaches to cultural diversity in mental health care and specificities of French transcultural consultations: A scoping review.

Carrera

Lévesque-Daniel

Radjack

et al. 2019

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Background: Cultural context substantially affects the experience and clinical expression of psychiatric diseases, while cultural factors limit both access to and the effectiveness of care, especially for migrant families requiring the construction of specific types of services. We review the international literature on mental health services that take cultural elements into account and use these data to uncover the specificities of the French model of consultations by a group of transcultural psychotherapists. Methods: Exhaustive review of the international literature through searches of PubMed and PsycINFO. The review includes 32 articles. Results: The specificities of mental health services for migrant families are linked to the host country's migration patterns and citizenship model. In English-speaking countries, specialized services for ethnic minorities offer ethnic matching of the therapist and patient. In Canada, indirect transcultural consultation services have existed since the late 1990s. Australia emphasizes the networking of consultation services and professional training in cultural competence, while the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark) focus management on trauma. In France, psychotherapy services, with flexible numbers of therapists involved according to the situation, have existed since 1990. Discussion: Most initiatives place emphasis on training and supervision, in an indirect approach not specifically focused on the patient, or offer cultural matching of patient and therapist. The French transcultural approach, on the contrary, makes the family's culture and its cultural diversity an integral part of the therapy process. Scientific publications clearly demonstrate the clinical efficacy of this method.

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An Intervention Supporting the Mental Health of Children with a Refugee Background

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Clinical Approaches to Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Care and Specificities of French Transcultural Consultations: A Scoping Review

Clinical approaches to cultural diversity in mental health care and specificities of French transcultural consultations: A scoping review.

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