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A Primary Prevention Programme for Migrant Children in a Queensland High School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

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“To reveal one's own emotional state to someone outside of the family, such as a social worker, or psychiatrist, is foreign to the usual repertoire of responses of Asians when in need of psychological support.” This assertion, made by two Asian-American mental health workers, is supported by the authors, based upon their social work experience with Indo-Chinese refugees in Queensland.

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