Coping with Uncertainty: Understanding the Impact of External and Internal Factors on Refugee Mental Health by Professor Angela Nickerson
The are currently over 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, and in 2022, less than 1% of these were permanently resettled. Accordingly, tens of millions of people around the world are coping with prolonged uncertainty in the aftermath of significant exposure to trauma and adversity.
There is an urgent need for research evidence to inform both structural change and evidence-based psychological interventions to improve the mental health of refugees living with prolonged uncertainty.
In this talk, Professor Angela Nickerson will present findings from longitudinal research studies undertaken with refugees living in Australia and Indonesia.
These studies elucidate how external (e.g. visa insecurity) and internal (e.g. cognitive appraisals) factors impact on the mental health of refugees living with prolonged uncertainty.
Findings will be discussed in the context of research evidence to inform structural policy change, and evidence-based clinical practice to support refugees to recover from the psychological effects of trauma and displacement.
