Resilience in refugee children and youth: A critical literature review.

Abstract

To better understand factors that promote and foster resilience among young refugees, in this manuscript, we aimed to critically review the progress in research on refugee children and youth's resilience from the vantagepoint of young refugee participants and prominent researchers. In doing so, the present critical review synthesizes exemplary findings from illustrative lines of work, discussing controversies and lessons learned from these studies, and offering implications for practice and future science. Overall, reviewed studies of mass trauma related to war from many different Western postmigration contexts point to a fundamental set of adaptive systems across multiple levels of the ecology in which refugee children and youth live that account for much of their capacity for doing well, recovering, or even thriving following resettlement. Hence, this critical review further provides important clues to key protective factors in the lives of young refugees, which can inform both practice and policy to mitigate risk and promote resilience in multiple socioecological systems. Public Significance StatementThis review article advances our knowledge of a host of biological, psychological, social, and cultural determinants of resilience, which interact with one another across multiple levels of social and ecological contexts to determine young refugees' adaptive responds to stressful experiences in the context of war, migration, and resettlement. Accordingly, it promotes a perspective with emphasis on the potential of host societies to facilitate the mobilization of human agency and physical resources.

Profiles of Protective Factors among Children and Adolescents in the Child Welfare System

“…In this line, the sense of self-determination and the acquisition of autonomy (Deci & Ryan, 2000) does not compete with the need to feel secure after having participated in this type of migration process. Therefore, it is important to highlight the resilience of this population (Jafari et al, 2022;Pieloch et al, 2016) and their means to find social support from their peers (Keles & Oppedal, 2022). Additionally, these differences among the country of origin of the subjects corroborate the results reported by Yu et al (2020), since the protective factors respond to cultural variables.…”

Building a socially and culturally responsive psychology / engendrer une psychologie plus réceptive sur le plan social et culturel.

“…Les auteurs décrivent les étapes d'un modèle de soins de santé mentale « intégré au processus de réinstallation » pour les réfugiés qui est accessible et utilisable par d'autres praticiens. En dernier lieu, Jafari et al (2022) fournissent une analyse critique de la littérature sur la résilience des enfants et des jeunes réfugiés. Leur analyse cerne les principaux facteurs de protection dans la vie des jeunes réfugiés qui peuvent informer la pratique et les politiques de manière à atténuer les risques et à promouvoir la résilience au sein de multiples systèmes socioécologiques.…”

“…The authors outline the steps of a “settlement-integrated” model of mental health care for refugees that is accessible and usable by other practitioners. Last, Jafari et al (2022) provide a critical literature review on resilience in refugee children and youth. Their review identifies key protective factors in the lives of young refugees that can inform both practice and policy to mitigate risk and promote refugee resilience across multiple socioecological systems.…”

Resilience and vulnerability of Ukrainians: The role of family during the war

“…Both individual and community efforts are essential for youth recovery after disasters Jafari et al (2022). dealt with young refugees and detected factors of their resilience to adapt/recover properly.…”