Gialama, Maria and McGilloway, Sinéad (2020) "More Alike Than Unalike?" A Personal Reflection on Working to Support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Greece. Intervention, 18 (2). pp. 166-171. ISSN 1872-1001

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Abstract

In late 2018, motivated (and intrigued) by the scale of one of the largest and long-standing humanitarian crises in history, we embarked on two separate but related journeys to the island of Lesvos to work with unaccompanied refugee and asylum-seeking minors and to link in with NGOs working in the region. Peering through the prism of the current pandemic, the aim of this paper is to reflect on this life changing experience to share the on-the-ground reality and the true stories of war, violence and displacement as narrated by the children/young people with whom we worked and whom we met. In particular, we suggest that the integration of culturally appropriate and creative mental health and psychosocial support interventions in schools/educational settings might provide one way of supporting these children, as suggested by several authors in the international literature, but also in the context of a number of key learning based on our own experiences.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: : Gialama, M., & McGilloway, S. (2020). “More Alike Than Unalike?" A Personal Reflection on Working to Support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Greece. Intervention, 18(2), 166-171
Keywords:	psychosocial interventions; refugee mental health; unaccompanied refugee minors;
Academic Unit:	Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
Item ID:	15041
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.4103/INTV.INTV_19_20
Depositing User:	Dr. Sinéad McGilloway
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2021 17:18
Journal or Publication Title:	Intervention
Publisher:	Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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