The author discusses how medical professionals can understand children who are refugees from war; he examines implications for their futures and discusses psychological therapies “aimed at catharsis of ‘traumatic’ memory.” He addresses these topics by asking and answering in depth the following questions:,”How can the predicament of refugee children be framed, and when can their distress or suffering legitimately be seen as mental pathology?”,”Can it be assumed that war and refugeedom render children psychologically vulnerable in the short or longer term?”,”Should the bad memories of refugee children be ‘worked through’?” He states that despite pain and traumatic experience, most refugee children “seem competent to live on without breaking down; mourning or putting aside their losses and seeking creative accommodation with their present circumstances.”
