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- Title
Supporting the developmental health of refugee children and youth.
- Authors
Minhas, Ripudaman S.; Graham, Hamish; Jegathesan, Thivia; Huber, Joelene; Young, Elizabeth; Barozzino, Tony
- Abstract
The Canadian Government has announced that over 50,000 refugees from the Middle East will be resettled in Canada by 2018. More than one-third of these refugees are expected to be children. The Canadian Paediatric Society has called for the Canadian government to prepare for the influx of these children. This should include addressing developmental, behavioural, and mental health needs. The focus of this paper is the role of paediatricians and family physicians in caring for the developmental health of refugee children, as a means of supporting their developmental and learning potential. The authors suggest the use of EMPOWER (Education, Migration, Parents and Family, Outlook, Words, Experience of Trauma and Resources), a mnemonic checklist they developed for assessing developmental risk factors in refugee children. EMPOWER can be used along with online web resources such as Caring For Kids New to Canada in providing evidence-informed care to these children.
- Subjects
CANADA; MIDDLE East; CHILD development deviations -- Risk factors; REFUGEES; CHILD development; CHILDREN'S health; PEDIATRICIANS; PHYSICIANS; GENERAL practitioners; WORLD Wide Web; INFORMATION resources; OCCUPATIONAL roles; CHILDREN
- Publication
Paediatrics & Child Health (1205-7088), 2017, Vol 22, Issue 2, p68
- ISSN
1205-7088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pch/pxx003