Psychological challenges faced by refugee minors in Serbia
Abstract
The presence of refugees from the middle-east in Serbia has significantly
increased over the past 3 years. From the international protection perspective,
minors traveling alone present one of the most vulnerable groups that need
special attention and psychological support. In order to provide guidelines for
evidence-based practice in psychological first aid and long-term support of
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minors, we conducted a research aiming to assess most common psychological
challenges in this group of refugees. The psychological assessment was
conducted with 108 refugees age 11-17 (M= 15.4, SD=2.6), predominantly
male (96.2%) from Afghanistan (87%) using Strengths and Difficulties
Questionnaire (SDQ) self-report form (Goodman, et al. 2000). The results
have shown that 52.8% of minors experience some form of emotional
hardships, 10.4% have conduct-related problems, while 40.6% experienced
problems related to establishing and maintaining relationships with their
peers. The results also ind...icate that a small number of minors show signs of
hyperactivity/attention deficits (2.8%) and rarely exhibit a lack of prosocial
behavior (2.8%). These results show that a significant number of minors in
refugee population need additional psychological support which would
serve to functionally overcome emotional issues and help them establish and
maintain quality relationships with their peers thus creating a wider social
support network.
Keywords:
refugees, minors, mental health, strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) / refugees / minors / mental health / strengths and difficulties questionnaire / sdqSource:
Abstract book, 13th International conference Days of applied psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, 2017, 86-87Institution/Community
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CONF AU - Ilić, Isidora AU - Stojadinović, Irena AU - Todorović, Andrej AU - Vukčević Marković, Maša AU - Bjekić, Jovana PY - 2017 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5501 AB - The presence of refugees from the middle-east in Serbia has significantly increased over the past 3 years. From the international protection perspective, minors traveling alone present one of the most vulnerable groups that need special attention and psychological support. In order to provide guidelines for evidence-based practice in psychological first aid and long-term support of 87 minors, we conducted a research aiming to assess most common psychological challenges in this group of refugees. The psychological assessment was conducted with 108 refugees age 11-17 (M= 15.4, SD=2.6), predominantly male (96.2%) from Afghanistan (87%) using Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) self-report form (Goodman, et al. 2000). The results have shown that 52.8% of minors experience some form of emotional hardships, 10.4% have conduct-related problems, while 40.6% experienced problems related to establishing and maintaining relationships with their peers. The results also indicate that a small number of minors show signs of hyperactivity/attention deficits (2.8%) and rarely exhibit a lack of prosocial behavior (2.8%). These results show that a significant number of minors in refugee population need additional psychological support which would serve to functionally overcome emotional issues and help them establish and maintain quality relationships with their peers thus creating a wider social support network. C3 - Abstract book, 13th International conference Days of applied psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Niš T1 - Psychological challenges faced by refugee minors in Serbia EP - 87 SP - 86 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5501 ER -
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Ilić, I., Stojadinović, I., Todorović, A., Vukčević Marković, M.,& Bjekić, J.. (2017). Psychological challenges faced by refugee minors in Serbia. in Abstract book, 13th International conference Days of applied psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, 86-87. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5501
Ilić I, Stojadinović I, Todorović A, Vukčević Marković M, Bjekić J. Psychological challenges faced by refugee minors in Serbia. in Abstract book, 13th International conference Days of applied psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Niš. 2017;:86-87. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5501 .
Ilić, Isidora, Stojadinović, Irena, Todorović, Andrej, Vukčević Marković, Maša, Bjekić, Jovana, "Psychological challenges faced by refugee minors in Serbia" in Abstract book, 13th International conference Days of applied psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Niš (2017):86-87, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5501 .