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Adolescent refugees’ traumatic experiences and its influence on the vision of the present life circumstances

Pichurina, Irina LU (2010) SIMT28 20101
Master of Science in Development Studies
Graduate School
Department of Psychology
Abstract (Swedish)
The development of psychological health interventions for adolescent refugees is complicated by the cultural and linguistic diversity of individuals. Additionally, both post traumatic experiences with ongoing development during the process of acculturation make a problem of psychological assessment even more complex. Those aspects are the effects of violence and traumatic loss as well as migration hardships and settlement stresses. When assessing this population group for possible treatment and formulating appropriate interventions for promoting psychological health and well-being generally, a comprehensive understanding of the perception of the past experience by adolescent refugees themselves has to be taken into account. Hence, a... (More)
The development of psychological health interventions for adolescent refugees is complicated by the cultural and linguistic diversity of individuals. Additionally, both post traumatic experiences with ongoing development during the process of acculturation make a problem of psychological assessment even more complex. Those aspects are the effects of violence and traumatic loss as well as migration hardships and settlement stresses. When assessing this population group for possible treatment and formulating appropriate interventions for promoting psychological health and well-being generally, a comprehensive understanding of the perception of the past experience by adolescent refugees themselves has to be taken into account. Hence, a phenomenological approach is seen as the most appropriate one for studying of identified problem. Six adolescent refugees’ interviews were analyzed qualitatively with MCA-Minerva software. Regardless the culture being with the family during the war was the only positively marked memory. Those participants, who express less negative, but instead neutral vision of the past experience, performed positive-wishes and expectation for the future to higher degree. There are particular activities that provide adolescents with the sense of life purpose, hence, the availability of these social activities provides general satisfaction of the life’ circumstances. The paper discusses stated above findings and some others. (Less)
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author
Pichurina, Irina LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
An exploration of narratives from the phenomenological perspective
course
SIMT28 20101
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Adolescents, Culture, Experience, Phenomenology, Refugees, Meaning Constitution Analysis.
language
English
id
1613881
date added to LUP
2010-06-29 11:32:40
date last changed
2014-06-10 08:54:04
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  abstract     = {{The development of psychological health interventions for adolescent refugees is complicated by the cultural and linguistic diversity of individuals. Additionally, both post traumatic experiences with ongoing development during the process of acculturation make a problem of psychological assessment even more complex. Those aspects are the effects of violence and traumatic loss as well as migration hardships and settlement stresses. When assessing this population group for possible treatment and formulating appropriate interventions for promoting psychological health and well-being generally, a comprehensive understanding of the perception of the past experience by adolescent refugees themselves has to be taken into account. Hence, a phenomenological approach is seen as the most appropriate one for studying of identified problem. Six adolescent refugees’ interviews were analyzed qualitatively with MCA-Minerva software. Regardless the culture being with the family during the war was the only positively marked memory. Those participants, who express less negative, but instead neutral vision of the past experience, performed positive-wishes and expectation for the future to higher degree. There are particular activities that provide adolescents with the sense of life purpose, hence, the availability of these social activities provides general satisfaction of the life’ circumstances. The paper discusses stated above findings and some others.}},
  author       = {{Pichurina, Irina}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Adolescent refugees’ traumatic experiences and its influence on the vision of the present life circumstances}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}