Children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds may have specific experiences which affect their mental health. It is important to use a social determinants lens when exploring the factors that contribute to the mental health of children from CALD backgrounds.
This literature review has been drawn from academic and grey literature available within Australia and internationally. It focusses on good practices that are considered to improve the lives of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds that are experiencing mental ill-health and are being supported in the community, including primary care settings.
Investigation of barriers to and facilitators of formal help-seeking among children and young people from refugee backgrounds as distinct from factors important for refugee adults and nonrefugees children/youth is important because, in the absence of such research, “policy makers, service planners, and mental health professionals have little option but to draw unreliable inferences from research based on children in the general population or ethnic minority adults”(de Anstiss, et al., 2009).
Developed by the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights, this resource guide is for professionals working in all aspects of the media on the issue of Female Genital Cutting.
A paper on the findings of a qualitative study of the contraception knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of African Australian teenagers and women from a refugee background in Melbourne.