The International journal of social psychiatry
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Int J Soc Psychiatry · Mar 2009
Post-traumatic stress in asylum seekers and refugees from Chechnya, Afghanistan, and West Africa: gender differences in symptomatology and coping.
Internationally, a high number of refugees are in need of help as a consequence of post-traumatic stress or acculturation problems. ⋯ Social psychiatric interventions should take gender-specific symptoms and coping strategies into account. For asylum seekers and refugees, same gender client-therapist dyads and groups are highly recommended.