Coping and Resilience in Refugees from the Sudan: A Narrative Account

Robert Schweitzer · Jaimi H. Greenslade · Ashraf Kagee

276 citations0/0 files storedAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Migration, Health and Trauma Migration and Exile Studies Resilience and Mental Health

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper was to identify and explicate coping and resilience themes employed by 13 re-settled Sudanese refugees. METHOD: A sample of 13 Sudanese refugees was asked to describe their experience of coping in the three periods of their migration, namely: pre migration from Sudan, transit, and post migration in their host country. Members of the sample participated in qualitative interviews conducted with the assistance a bilingual community worker. RESULTS: Three themes that characterized the experience of re-settled refugees across all periods were: religious beliefs, social support and personal qualities. A fourth less salient, theme, comparison with others, also emerged in the post-migration context. CONCLUSIONS: A number of themes associated with coping and resilience in response to trauma were identified. These themes may be translated into strategies to assist in responding constructively to trauma. Such approaches may be used to improve the well-being of re-settled refugees in Australia.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 276 citations exist upstream.

References

1996The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory: Measuring the positive legacy of trauma 1999Doing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 2006Trauma, Post-Migration Living Difficulties, and Social Support as Predictors of Psychological Adjustment in Resettled Sudanese Refugees 2002Long-term effect of psychological trauma on the mental health of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Australia: a population-based study 1999The Psychosocial Effects of Torture, Mass Human Rights Violations, and Refugee Trauma 2004Complex trauma, complex reactions: Assessment and treatment.1999Disability Associated With Psychiatric Comorbidity and Health Status in Bosnian Refugees Living in Croatia 1999Pathways from war trauma to posttraumatic stress symptoms among Tamil asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants

Cited by

2010Beyond the Discourse of Trauma: Shifting the Focus on Sudanese Refugees 2012What does the literature say about resilience in refugee people? Implications for practice 2012Forced migration and mental health: prolonged internal displacement, return migration and resilience 2013Resilience as a Protective Factor Against the Development of Psychopathology Among Refugees

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.