This paper considers two pertinent strands in the contemporary immigrant mental healthliterature: 1) the distinction made between stressors that are endemic to most immigrantexperiences vs. those migration stressors that precipitate trauma per se; and 2) clinicalguidelines that continue to refine the assessment of immigrants’ presenting mental healthproblems, given the provision of services in institutions that are foreign to both thelanguage and idioms of distress of the populations being served. Case vignettes highlightthe research findings and practice recommendations. (Description from source)
