The Children of Islamic State

Quilliam’s latest report “Children of the Islamic State” is the result of a six-month study that argues the education of children is a central component of the extremist movement’s strategy as it seeks to create a new generation of fighters.

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Medical Approach to the Management of Traumatized Refugees

Refugees are a highly traumatized and culturally diverse group of patients who present many clinical challenges. Refugees have a high prevalence of traumas from torture, ethnic cleansing, and the effects of long civil wars. The most common diagnoses associated with the effects of such traumas are posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or PTSD with comorbid depression; however, psychosis and neurocognitive disorders are also common.

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Prolonged grief and depression after unnatural loss: latent class analyses and cognitive correlates

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Concurrent and prospective associations of intolerance of uncertainty with symptoms of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression after bereavement.

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Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy v. stabilisation as usual for refugees: randomised controlled trial

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Background
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a first-line treatment for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some clinicians argue that with refugees, directly targeting traumatic memories through EMDR may be harmful or ineffective.
Aims
To determine the safety and efficacy of EMDR in adult refugees with PTSD (trial registration: ISRCTN20310201).
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Parental PTSD, adverse parenting and child attachment in a refugee sample.

In contrast with traumatic experiences, there is a dearth of studies on the link between trauma symptoms, disconnected (frightened, threatening and dissociative) parenting behavior, extremely insensitive parenting behavior and child attachment. This study extends previous work on the impact of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on families by studying the unique contribution of disconnected and extremely insensitive parenting behavior on child attachment in a highly traumatized sample of 68 asylum seekers and refugees and their children (18–42 months).

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Preserving and Improving the Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Literature Review for the Health Council of the Netherlands

According to the UNHCR, a record number of around 60 million people are currently displaced worldwide. In 2015, more than 1 million refugees and asylum seekers had reached Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, with more than 50% constituting Syrians.1 Around 59.000 refugees and asylum seekers arrived in the Netherlands in 2015.2 Given the on-going civil war in Syria and difficult conditions in the regional countries, it is not likely that the refugee influx will reduce substantially in the following years.

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Self-correcting mechanisms and echo-effects in social media: An analysis of the “gunman in the newsroom” crisis

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Fresh Eyes on the Refugee Crisis: an interdisciplinary approach

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Unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands and the care facility in which they flourish best

This study compares the views of unaccompanied minors living in four different types of care facilities in the Netherlands: namely in foster care, small living units, children's living groups and campuses on their wellbeing, living circumstances and place in Dutch society. Interviews with 132 minors were both qualitatively and quantitatively analysed. Based on the transcripts from the interviews the researchers completed a questionnaire (BIC-Q) to judge the quality of the child rearing environment in the different types of care facilities.

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