Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of CAMHS

Duration: 16 mins Publication Date: 6 Oct 2022 Next Review Date: 6 Oct 2025 DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21154

Description

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Gwladys Demazure, a clinical psychologist and recent PhD graduate in clinical psychology and psychopathology from the University of Grenoble-Alpes, France. Gwladys is the first author of the CAMH Review article, ‘Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of Mental Health Services and Professionals – A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’.

Learning Objectives

1. Overview of the paper, with insights into what they looked at in this review and why it is so important to explore unaccompanied refugee minors’ experiences.
2. Comments on the methodology used for the review, before turning to the main findings, including that unaccompanied refugee minors often don’t trust mental health professionals, nor do they have a clear perception of what they do.
3. What CAMH professionals should be doing and thinking about based off these findings and shares insight into whether her review highlighted any types of interventions that were valued by unaccompanied refugee minors.
4. Message to mental health professionals about how they might adapt their practice to better meet the needs of unaccompanied refugee minor.