Refugees and asylum seekers - Quality of care

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European-wide research on good practices in mental health and social care

Watters, C., Ingleby, D., Bernal, M., De Freitas, C., De Ruuk, N., Van Leeuwen, M. & Venkatesan, S. (2003) Good practices in mental health and social care for asylum seekers and refugees. Final Report of project for the European Commission (European Refugee Fund). Canterbury: University of Kent. Download Country Report on the UK
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Articles based on this report:

D. Ingleby & C. Watters (2005) Mental health and social care for asylum seekers and refugees: a comparative study, in D. Ingleby (ed.), Forced migration and mental health: rethinking the care of refugees and displaced persons. New York: Springer (pp. 193-212). Download

C. Watters & D. Ingleby, Locations of care: meeting the mental health and social care needs of refugees in Europe. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 27, 549-570. Download

Other research on good practice

Palmer, David and Ward, Kim (2006). Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health 'Unheard voices' : listening to refugees and asylum seekers in the planning and delivery of mental health service provision in London. London : CPPIH Download

Ghebrehewet S, Regan M, Benons L, Knowles J (2002). Provision of services to asylum seekers. Are there lessons from the experience with Kosovan refugees? J Epidemiol Community Health, 56(3), p. 223-6. Abstract & full text

Watters C (2001). Emerging paradigms in the mental health care of refugees. Soc Sci Med, 52(11), p. 1709-18. Abstract

Kate Harris, Coralie Maxwell (2000). A needs assessment in a refugee mental health project in North-East London: Extending the counselling model to community support. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 16 (2), p. 201 - 215 Abstract

Mapping the provision of mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees in London: a report; Kim Ward & David Palmer, March 2005 Download