Adjustment of refugee children and adolescents in Australia: outcomes from wave three of the Building a New Life in Australia study

Lau, Winnie; Silove, Derrick; Edwards, Ben; Forbes, David; A. Bryant, Richard; C. McFarlane, Alexander; Hadži-Pavlović, Dušan; Steel, Zachary; Nickerson, Angela; Van Hooff, Miranda; L. Felmingham, Kim; Cowlishaw, Sean; Alkemade, Nathan; Kartal, Dzenana; O’Donnell, Meaghan

doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1124-5

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Adjustment of refugee children and adolescents in Australia: outcomes from wave three of the Building a New Life in Australia study

Published in BMC Medicine • Aug 23, 2018

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Winnie Lau

Derrick Silove

Ben Edwards

Abstract

BACKGROUND: High-income countries like Australia play a vital role in resettling refugees from around the world, half of whom are children and adolescents. Informed by an ecological framework, this study examined the post-migration adjustment of refugee children and adolescents 2-3 years after arriv...

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Refugee

Absenteeism

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

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