The literature tends to use ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’ interchangeably, creating uncertainty about the mental health of asylum seekers. However, asylum seekers occupy a unique position in British society which differentiates them from people with refugee status and which may have implications for their mental health. For example, ‘asylum seekers’ are supported and accommodated in dispersal areas under the National Asylum Support Service and they are not entitled to work.

Les barèmes d'invalidité existent depuis l'Antiquité, mais leurs applications aux séquelles de traumatismes psychiques ne datent véritablement que de la fin du xixe siècle, avec l'évolution des politiques sociales, l'industrialisation et les guerres européennes. La traduction en chiffres d'une souffrance psychique, si elle s'avère utile sur le plan administratif pour calculer les indemnisations, soulève des problèmes de cohérence clinique et de justice quand elle devient une contrainte rigide et sans nuances. La barèmisation s'applique en fait très mal aux psychotraumatismes.

Abstract The Cultural Formulation (CF) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) provides a potential framework for improving the diagnostic assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in culturally diverse patients. We analyzed data from the Patient-Provider Encounte Study, a multi-site study that examines the process of diagnosis and clinical decision-making during an initial clinical intake session, in order to examine use of CF for PTSD diagnosis.

This article presents a systematic case study of maladaptive interpersonal schemas. These schemas are conceived of as affective scripts, or sequences of behaviors that regulate emotion in interpersonal relationships. Part I presents a test of the method for identifying affective scripts. Independent raters applied FRAMES (Fundamental Repetitive and Maladaptive Emotion Structures, Hoelzer & Dahl, 1996) to a representative sample of transcripts of a long-term psychotherapy.