SynthesisTrauma, violence & abuse2020
Finding Keys: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators for Refugee Children's Disclosure of Their Life Stories.
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- First-hand experiences of belonging among child refugees and asylum seekers, post-migration: a meta-synthesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Knowledge of the Unknown Child: A Systematic Review of the Elements of the Best Interests of the Child Assessment for Recently Arrived Refugee Children.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2016Pooled it
- Trauma-focused treatments for refugee children and adolescents with PTSD: a three-arm randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy of EMDR and KIDNET versus a waitlist control group (the KIEM study).Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Protecting unaccompanied migrant youth in transit through Mexico: frontline perspectives on appropriate policy implementation.Health policy and planning · 2025Article
- Interviewing Asylum-Seeking Children: A Scoping Review of Research to Inform Best Practices.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Article
- Development and evaluation of a training program for interpreters in the field of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugee communities in San Diego, California: A participatory action research cross-sectional study.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- A Safe Home? A Qualitative Study into the Experiences of Adolescents Growing Up in the Dutch Area Impacted by Earthquakes Induced by Gas Extraction.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Morbidity profile and sociodemographic characteristics of unaccompanied refugee minors seen by paediatric practices between October 2014 and February 2016 in Bavaria, Germany.BMC public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
The systematic review presented in this article aims to reveal what supports and hampers refugee children in telling their, often traumatic, life stories. This is important to ensure that migration decisions are based on reliable information about the children's needs for protection. A systematic review was conducted in academic journals, collecting all available scientific knowledge about the disclosure of life stories by refugee minors in the context of social work, guardianship, foster care, asylum procedures, mental health assessment, and therapeutic settings. The resulting 39 studies were thoroughly reviewed with reference to what factors aided or hampered the refugee children's disclosure of their life stories. The main barriers to disclosure were feelings of mistrust and self-protection from the side of the child and disrespect from the side of the host community. The facilitators for disclosing life stories were a positive and respectful attitude of the interviewer, taking time to build trust, using nonverbal methods, providing agency to the children, and involving trained interpreters. Social workers, mentors, and guardians should have time to build trust and to help a young refugee in revealing the life story before the minor is heard by the migration authorities. The lack of knowledge on how refugee children can be helped to disclose their experiences is a great concern because the decision in the migration procedure is based on the story the child is able to disclose.
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