{"id":375,"date":"2022-11-28T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/?page_id=375"},"modified":"2022-12-01T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:45:36","slug":"mental-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/useful-websites\/mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asylum seekers and refugees face unique and complex challenges related to their mental health and they are often at <\/span>greater risk of developing a mental health problem.\u00a0<\/span>The increased vulnerability to mental health problems that refugees and asylum seekers face is linked to <\/span>pre-migration experiences<\/span> (such as war trauma) and <\/span>post-migration experiences<\/span> (such as separation from family, difficulties with asylum procedures, and poor housing) .\u00a0<\/span>Asylum seekers are 5 times more likely to have mental health needs than the general population. However, data shows that they are <\/span>less likely to receive support <\/span>than the general population. (<\/span>Source: Mental Health Foundation)\u00a0Mental Health<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mental Health Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>work towards\u00a0<\/span>good mental health for all<\/span>, focusing on\u00a0<\/span>prevention.\u00a0<\/span>Some communities are at\u00a0<\/span>higher risk of mental health\u00a0problems<\/span>\u00a0due to the social, economic, and environmental\u00a0circumstances they find themselves in, such as refugees\u00a0and asylum seekers<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Voices and Visibility”<\/strong> is a new MHF<\/b> project which\u00a0aims to\u00a0gain insight into the\u00a0<\/span>barriers to civic participation by\u00a0refugees and asylum seekers.\u00a0<\/span>The World Health Organisation has identified\u00a0<\/span>community\u00a0empowerment<\/span>\u00a0as the first track to promote health and\u00a0wellbeing, being \u2018the process of enabling communities to\u00a0increase control over their lives\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2017, MHF<\/b> has been working with refugees and asylum seekers to support their mental health using\u00a0a range of approaches.\u00a0<\/span>At the heart of these projects has been the <\/span>\u2018voices\u2019 of refugee and asylum-seeking communities.\u00a0<\/span>The Voices and Visibility report came out in March 2022 and gives<\/span> recommendations on how refugee communities can actively participate on civic forums<\/span> and other decision-making structures, such as Parent Councils.\u00a0<\/span>This research study took a <\/span>participatory research approach<\/span>, so it is shaped by the voices of refugees and asylum seekers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mental Health signposts and success stories<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Scotland Our New Home features a series of inspirational stories by young refugees from the New Young Peers Scotland group (hosted by YPeople Charity) who wanted to make a film to support other new young arrivals in the process of making home in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Scotland Our New Home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Teaching Refugee Children UNHRC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Coping with TRAUMA – from Good Thinking UK<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Trauma Informed School UK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bell Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Beacon House RESOURCES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Asylum seekers and refugees face unique and complex challenges related to their mental health and they are often at greater risk of developing a mental health problem.\u00a0The increased vulnerability to mental health problems that refugees and asylum seekers face is linked to pre-migration experiences (such as war trauma) and post-migration experiences (such as separation from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18385,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions\/444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ealinsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}