ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2018
An ecological model of adaptation to displacement: individual, cultural and community factors affecting psychosocial adjustment among Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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- A systematic review of MHPSS interventions targeting non-clinical Arabic-speaking refugees and/or displaced populations in the MENA region.BMJ global health · 2026Pooled it
- Mental health problems among ethnic minorities during public crises: a systematic review of coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Safe but broken: a critical review on psychological risks of childhood in refugee camps.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Critical Rapid Review.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Review
- Are We All Post Traumatic Yet? A Critical Narrative Review of Trauma Among Arab Refugees.International journal of social determinants of health and health services · 2025Review
- The Development and Validation of a Measure of Mental Health, Help-Seeking Beliefs in Arabic-Speaking Refugees.Assessment · 2024Article
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- 'Let it stay in the heart': cultural and gendered experiences of distress among Syrian refugees in Jordan.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Mental health and conflict: a pilot of an online eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) intervention for forcibly displaced Syrian women.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Navigating whiteness: affective relational intensities of non-clinical psychosocial support by and for culturally and linguistically diverse people.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Ambiguous loss of home: Syrian refugees and the process of losing and remaking home.Wellbeing, space and society · 2023Article
- Men's conceptualization of gender-based violence directed to women in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, South Africa.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Mental health of clinic-attending Syrian refugee women in Jordan: associations between social ecological risks factors and mental health symptoms.BMC women's health · 2022Article
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- Promoting the health of refugee women: a scoping literature review incorporating the social ecological model.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of using actigraphy to assess habitual physical activity and sleep parameters in men and women living in rural communities in conflict-affected Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2020Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a need for ecological approaches to guide global mental health programmes that can appropriately address the personal, family, social and cultural needs of displaced populations. A transactional ecological model of adaptation to displacement was developed and applied to the case of Syrian refugees living in Jordan.
methodsSyrian and Jordanian psychosocial workers (
resultsThe application of the ecological concept of niche construction demonstrated how the adaptive functions of a culturally significant concept of dignity (
conclusionsThe transactional concepts in this model can help clinicians working with displaced people to consider and formulate a broader range of causal factors than is commonly included in individualistic therapy approaches. Researchers may use this model to develop testable hypotheses.
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