Forced Migration and Mental Health

David Ingleby is Professor of Intercultural Psychology at Utrecht University. After working for the Medical Research Council in London and teaching in Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, he moved to Holland in 1982 to take up a chair in Developmental Psychology. Since 1991 he has concentrated on issues of migration and culture and was awarded his present chair in 1999. Together with Charles Watters he teaches in the European MA network on ‘Migration, Mental Health and Social Care’. He has a lifelong interest in the social dimension of psychology and in interdisciplinary research and practice.

• Editor’s Introduction.- From Trauma to Survival and Adaptation:.- Transforming Local and Global Discourses.- Traumatic Stress in Context.- Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children Who Have Been Associated with Fighting Forces.- “My Whole Body is Sick … my Life is not Good”.- Mental Health Care for Refugee Children in Exile.- Getting Closer.- Kurdish Women Refugees.- Beyond The Personal Pain:.- Mental Health Services in the UK.- Mental Health and Social Care for Asylum Seekers and Refugees.

"This book is relevant to all those working with refugees and displaced persons amongst health and social work professionals as well as other care givers and policy makers. In almost all chapters the limitations of the Western concept of traumatic stress with its strong accent on postramatic stress disorder is emphasized. Furthermore, the important role. of the cultural context is illustrated. The advantage of focising on practival problems rather than emotion is another leading theme." -Wybrand Op den Velde, medical consltant of Stichting 1940-1945 and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of War Trauma Foundation. Intervention 2005, Volume 3, Number 2