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ArticleInternational journal of culture and mental health2016

The Role of Cultural Psychiatry in Improving the Policy Response to Central America's Unaccompanied Minors at the American Border: Local and Global Implications.

Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Pablo Jose Farias, Anne E Becker, Robert Like, Francis Lu, Nadia Oryema, Roberto Lewis-Fernández

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Article in International journal of culture and mental health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Neil Krishan AggarwalColumbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Pablo Jose FariasHarvard Medical School.
Anne E BeckerHarvard Medical School.
Robert LikeRutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Francis LuUniversity of California Davis.
Nadia OryemaNew York University Langone Medical Center.
Roberto Lewis-FernándezColumbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Funding

The Cultural Formulation Interview-Engagement Aid for Mental Health TreatmentK23MH102334 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI AGGARWAL, NEIL KRISHAN · 2014 to 2017
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NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH102334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since 2014, children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras unaccompanied by their parents have fled in large numbers to the United States to escape violent crime and social disadvantage. Current mental health policies in the U.S. government's response can be improved based on guidelines from professional psychiatric and psychological organizations. These guidelines emphasize the importance of immigration and culture, raising questions into how the field of cultural psychiatry can offer conceptual frameworks and methods to research unaccompanied minor migration as a humanitarian problem. This paper conducts a policy analysis by reviewing shortcomings in the U.S. response and explores the potential contributions of cultural psychiatrists in optimizing services to address the needs of these children in the U.S. and their countries of origin.

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Central Americachild and adolescent psychiatryCultural psychiatrymental health policy

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PMID28757896
PMCPMC5526641

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