Celebrating World Refugee Day: Understanding Refugee Experiences and Improving Services

National Child Traumatic Stress Network. 06/20/2017 This one-hour course provides current information about refugee arrivals in the U.S., refugee mental health needs, and best practices. Presenters discuss how host communities/service providers need to take trauma and loss into consideration as they support refugees. They also discuss refugee core stressors; highlight the importance of creating trauma-informed, culturally accessible services; and utilize Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R) as an example of an intervention specifically tailored to address the needs of refugees. (Video or Multimedia) Site requires free registration.

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - June 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news