Migration mental health issues in Europe: the case of Greece

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2016) 25:119122 DOI 10.1007/s00787-015-0806-1 ESCAP COMMUNICATION Migration mental health issues in Europe: the case of Greece The migrations of people of many different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds have been a major issue of concern in Greece the last three...

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Published in:European child & adolescent psychiatry 2016, Vol.25 (1), p.119-122
Main Authors: Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris C., Triantafyllou, Kalliopi, Xylouris, George, Bakatsellos, John, Giannakopoulos, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic failure
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Children & youth
Displaced persons
ESCAP Communication
Europe - ethnology
Greece - ethnology
Hospitals
Host country
Humans
Immigrant students
Immigration
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - ethnology
Mental health
Mental Health - ethnology
Mental Health - trends
Migration
NGOs
Noncitizens
Nongovernmental organizations
Pediatrics
Population
Psychiatry
Psychopathology
Public health
Refugees
Refugees - psychology
Social solidarity
Systematic review
Transients and Migrants - psychology
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Summary:Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2016) 25:119122 DOI 10.1007/s00787-015-0806-1 ESCAP COMMUNICATION Migration mental health issues in Europe: the case of Greece The migrations of people of many different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds have been a major issue of concern in Greece the last three decades. Since 1989, Greece has been transformed into a host country for immigrants and refugees. [...]immigrant students seemed to perform signicantly lower academic achievement and be less engaged in school (possibly in order to protect themselves from academic failure) than their nonimmigrant classmates [3, 4]. Since 2008, Greece is the main host country for African and Asian refugee population (mainly from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Bangladesh). [...]it has been shown that refugees experience higher rates of psychiatric disorders than other populations with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety disorders to be the most common psychiatric disorders among war refugees [13, 14]. No cases of deaths were reported during 20092013 regarding respective cases. [...]another complicated issue in the clinical practice with this population refers to age-disputed children, i.e. asylum applicants whose claimed date of birth is not accepted by the local authorities.
ISSN:1018-8827
1435-165X
DOI:10.1007/s00787-015-0806-1