Refugee Women and Their Mental Health:

Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women. Most of the literature on refugees focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees' experiences as women. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health begins to fill this paucity of information on female refugees' experiences. A book of immediate interest, it focuses on understanding the plight of women refugees around the world, with an emphasis on mental health. The book adds successful and innovative treatment and recovery models for these women survivors. Some of the chapters are written by women who are therapists/psychologists now and who have been refugees themselves which adds additional insight into the plight and resulting mental health problems of refugee women.

Foreword
Introduction
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health: Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives	p. 1
A Personal Introduction	p. 5
Roots Uprooted: The Psychological Impact of Historical/Political Dislocation	p. 9
Understanding Refugees: From the Inside Out
Coping with Stress: A Refugee's Story	p. 21
Birth, Transformation, and Death of Refugee Identity: Women and Girls of the Intifada	p. 35
Women in Exile and Their Children	p. 53
Rape and Domestic Violence: The Experience of Refugee Women	p. 65
Soviet Jewish Refugee Women: Searching for Security	p. 79
Displaced Women in Settings of Continuing Armed Conflict	p. 89
Fifty Years Later: Am I Still an Immigrant?	p. 105
Working With Refugees: The Challenges and Rewards
The Balancing Act: Plight of Afghan Women Refugees	p. 113
Traces of Khmer Women's Imaginary: Finding Our Way in the West	p. 129
From Helpless Victim to Empowered Survivor: Oral History as a Treatment for Survivors of Torture	p. 141
On Trial in the Promised Land: Seeking Asylum	p. 155
Journeys to Recovery: The Healing Process
Testimonio, a Bridge Between Psychotherapy and Sociotherapy	p. 173
Healing the Wounds of the Mahantdori	p. 191
Women and Political Torture: Work with Refugee Survivors in Exile	p. 209
Markers of Successful Aging Among Vietnamese Refugee Women	p. 221
Diagnostic Studies Across Cultures
Treatment for Psychosomatic Blindness Among Cambodian Refugee Women	p. 239
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Salvadoran Women: Empirical Evidence and Description of Treatment	p. 267
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnamese Women	p. 281
Healing Their Wounds: Guatemalan Refugee Women as Political Activists	p. 297
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