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- Title
From War Zone to Contact Zone: Culture and Refugee Mental Health Services.
- Authors
Weine, Stevan
- Abstract
Focuses on the contact zone as a place of exchange between two or more worlds, in the understanding of refugee mental health services. Ways in which new conceptualizations of culture can affect services for refugees; How the contact perspective is useful in managing issues concerning relationship between international and local professionals; Assertion that this approach can help in the creation of interventions that better fit the needs of refugee families.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care of refugees; MENTAL health services; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; MENTAL health counseling
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001, Vol 285, Issue 9, p1214
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.285.9.1214-JMS0307-4-1