Mental Health Support for Afghan Whānau Handbook | RASNZ
Refugees as Survivors New Zealand (RASNZ) has put together a handbook providing helpful knowledge and information for providers supporting Afghan and other refugee background communities in mental health services, PHOs, hospitals, community health services, schools, universities, MBIE/INZ, Red Cross, settlement support services, NGOs, ethnic community organisations and other services.
The handbook provides the following information:
- About Afghanistan
- Ethnic breakdown
- Literacy rate• Family dynamics
- Prevalence of war and trauma
- Trauma and evacuation – loss and grief
- Resilience factors – post-traumatic growth
- Common feelings and behaviours when crises hit back home
- How can we support Whānau?
- Practical reminders• When should Whānau seek professional help?
- Support services for Afghan communities in Aotearoa
