The articles struck a careful balance between glorifying the immigrants for their numbers, and branding the Mizrahim as living in the “Dark Ages,” coming from a “different world” and bringing with them a “lower level of civilization.” The newspapers insisted that the Mizrahi Jews lived under the constant fear of Arab attacks, were confined to impoverished ghettos, suffered from rampant disease, and in the words of Ben-Gurion, were destined to be “destroyed physically or spiritually” if they were not rescued (Ben-Gurion Rebirth and Destiny of Israel 533). Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s The Palestine Post and The Jerusalem Post published a number of articles focusing on North African Jews immigrating to Israel, a population known as the Mizrahim (“Easterners”). state building process, but essential to bolstering Israel’s Jewish population the North African Jew, like the rejected stone, was both useless and pivotal to the state.

From Israel’s perspective, the Moroccan Jews that began to immigrate in mass in the early 1950s were unable to contribute to the. The cornerstone for the new community would be the stone the builder’s had previously cast aside. Winner of the 2009 Durden Prize (Third/Fourth Year) On December 7th, 1932 The Palestine Post announced that a community for Moroccan Jews would be established in Jerusalem. Sustainability of services, ensuring best practice, evidence-based approaches, and promoting equity of access must remain the goals of future developments, a daunting challenge given that most refugees reside in settings where skills and resources in mental health care are in shortest supply. In the ideal circumstance, a comprehensive array of programs should be provided, including social and psychotherapeutic interventions, generic mental health services, rehabilitation, and special programs for vulnerable groups. Although brief, structured psychotherapies administered by lay counsellors have been shown to be effective in the short term for a range of traumatic stress responses, questions remain whether these interventions can be sustained in low-resource settings and whether they meet the needs of complex cases.

An evolving ecological model of research focuses on the dynamic inter-relationship of past traumatic experiences, ongoing daily stressors and the background disruptions of core psychosocial systems, the scope extending beyond the individual to the conjugal couple and the family. Prevalence data yielded by cross-sectional epidemiological studies do not allow a clear distinction to be made between situational forms of distress and frank mental disorder, a shortcoming that may be addressed by longitudinal studies. This paper considers contemporary issues in the refugee mental health field, including developments in research, conceptual models, social and psychological interventions, and policy. There has been an unprecedented upsurge in the number of refugees worldwide, the majority being located in low-income countries with limited resources in mental health care.

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