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Refugee Health Care: A Handbook for Health Professionals

March 18, 2013
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The 2012 update of the Refugee Health Care: A handbook for health professionals discusses new refugee communities settled in New Zealand, emerging trends in the health of refugee groups and current therapies, and adds new service providers. Written in consultation with health provider
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Universal Stories of Healing from Depression

March 07, 2013
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Universal Stories of Healing from Depression is an audio-visual resource which has been developed to raise awareness of depression in refugee communities. There are three stories from three different communities spoken in English and the languages of Dari (Afghanistan), Karen (Burma)
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Refer – mental health services table

August 28, 2012
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This table outlines specialised refugee and asylum seeker mental health services in Victoria, as well as generalist mental health services of relevance.  This document was updated in August 2012 and will be updated on a regular basis.
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Caring for Refugee Patients in General Practice: A desktop guide (4th ed.) Tasmania

July 10, 2012
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This desktop guide accompanies the Promoting Refugee Health: A guide for doctors, nurses and other health care providers caring for people of refugee background (3rd edition). The guide contains sections on: identifying patients from a refugee background engaging interpreters consulta
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Caring for Refugee Patients in General Practice: A desktop guide (4th ed.) ACT

June 22, 2012
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This desktop guide accompanies the Promoting Refugee Health: A guide for doctors, nurses and other health care providers caring for people of refugee background (3rd edition). The guide contains sections on: identifying patients from a refugee background engaging interpreters consulta
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Caring for Refugee Patients: A desktop guide (4th ed.) Northern Territory

June 22, 2012
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This desktop guide accompanies the Promoting Refugee Health: A guide for doctors, nurses and other health care providers caring for people of refugee background (3rd edition). The guide contains sections on: identifying patients from a refugee background engaging interpreters consulta
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Ucan2

May 14, 2012
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The Ucan2 program has been developed in response to the substantial number of young adults and older adolescents from refugee backgrounds who experience barriers to successful educational or employment pathways after completion of an on-arrival language program. It is a partnership pr
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A mental health research agenda for people of refugee background in Australia: a consensus study (Colucci, Minas, Szwarc, Paxton & Guerra 2010)

May 14, 2012
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This report outlines a response to the need to develop a comprehensive and coherant mental health research agenda to guide the development of policy and practice relevant to mental health research for children, young people and adult refugee background.
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Young people of refugee backgrounds share their throughts on mental health issues and services: A roundtable discussion between young people, service providers, Victorian government representatives and academics

May 14, 2012
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As part of a larger project the Centre for Multicultural Youth, the Victorian Foundation for Survivors or Torture, the Royal Children’s Hostpiral and the Centre for International Mental Health (University of Melbourne) convened a roundtable  with young people from refugee backgr
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Understanding the mental health and wellbeing of Afghan women in South East Melbourne.

May 14, 2012
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In early 2009, a consortium of health professionals in the Dandenong area identified a need to address mental health concerns among Afghan families of a refugee background. This research explores and documents issues contributing to poor mental health and wellbeing among women of chil
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