The speaker will be Angela Nickerson, Professor and Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program at the School of Psychology at UNSW. The event will take place from 12:15 to 13:30 on Monday, April 22 in Room E403.
Lunch will be provided! Click HERE to RSVP for in-person attendance. You may also choose to join us via Zoom at https://nyu.zoom.us/j/
Coping with uncertainty: Understanding the impact of external and internal factors on refugee mental health
There are currently over 110 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, and, in 2023 less than 1% of these were permanently resettled. Accordingly, tens of millions of people around the world are coping with prolonged uncertainty in the aftermath of significant exposure to trauma and adversity. There is an urgent need for research evidence to inform both structural change and evidence-based psychological interventions to improve the mental health of refugees living with prolonged uncertainty. In this talk, Dr. Nickerson will present findings from longitudinal research studies undertaken with refugees living in Australia and Indonesia. These studies elucidate how external (e.g. visa insecurity) and internal (e.g. psychological processes) factors impact on the mental health of refugees living with prolonged uncertainty. Findings will be discussed in the context of using research evidence to inform structural policy change, and evidence-based clinical practice to support refugees to recover from the psychological effects of trauma and displacement.