from Part III - Intersectoral Psychosocial Interventions in Working with Refugee Families
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2020
The objective of this chapter is to reflect on the role of collaborative mental health care for refugees in a school and community context. Conditions of adversity both preceding exile and during refugee resettlement may affect refugee children’s mental health. Access to mainstream health care services may be limited, and even when those services are available, they are most of the time underutilized by refugee families. Here, community and school-based services ensure a broader outreach and help refugees avoid stigmatization. In this chapter, we review community- and school-based collaborative care services and interventions for refugee families. We show how collaborative care models develop a protective network around vulnerable refugee youth and families. Subsequently, we present a specific collaborative care model that was developed in the context of action research. This project, conducted with refugee students and their families in Quebec schools, indicates the value of addressing the refugee youth’s psychosocial and educational needs within the school setting through an enhanced family-school collaboration.
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