A systematic review of socio-ecological factors contributing to risk and protection of the mental health of refugee children and adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 101930
Author(s):  
Florian Scharpf ◽  
Elisa Kaltenbach ◽  
Angela Nickerson ◽  
Tobias Hecker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Refugee Children

scholarly journals Rapid Systematic Review: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1218-1239.e3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elizabeth Loades ◽  
Eleanor Chatburn ◽  
Nina Higson-Sweeney ◽  
Shirley Reynolds ◽  
Roz Shafran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
The Impact

Resilience of sub-Saharan children and adolescents: A scoping review

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152093891
Author(s):  
Linda Theron
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Sub Saharan

The population of sub-Saharan children and adolescents is substantial and growing. Even though most of this population is vulnerable, there is no comprehensive understanding of the social-ecological factors that could be leveraged by mental health practitioners to support their resilience. The present study undertakes a narrative scoping review of empirical research (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed) on the resilience of children and adolescents living in sub-Saharan Africa to determine what enables their resilience and what may be distinctive about African pathways of child and adolescent resilience. Online databases were used to identify full-text, peer-reviewed papers published 2000–2018, from which we selected 59 publications detailing the resilience of children and/or adolescents living in 18 sub-Saharan countries. Studies show that the resilience of sub-Saharan children and adolescents is a complex, social-ecological process supported by relational, personal, structural, cultural, and/or spiritual resilience-enablers, as well as disregard for values or practices that could constrain resilience. The results support two insights that have implications for how mental health practitioners facilitate the resilience of sub-Saharan children and adolescents: (i) relational and personal supports matter more-or-less equally; and (ii) the capacity for positive adjustment is complexly interwoven with African ways-of-being and -doing.

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