Transnational family relationships in a context of exile-related family separation: The role of intra-family support in unaccompanied refugee adolescents’ mental health and posttrauma rehabilitation KU Leuven
With a growing influx of refugees in western European resettlement countries in the past years, a body of studies documents how minor refugees are an at-risk group for mental health problems, with an increased prevalence of psychiatric disorders showing particularly high rates of PTSD and depression in unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) who experience long-term separation from parental caregiving figures. Simultaneously, however, studies ...