This symposium describes important innovations in the delivery of mental health services and treatments to young asylum seeking and refugee children. The symposium is based on recent research and evaluation with this population. Separate presentations describe:
1.development and evaluation of a community group based intervention in Kurdistan, using principles of task shifting
2. school based services in the UK.
3. evaluation of characteristics of young help seeking refugees and service use in Greece.
4. review of primary and secondary prevention of psychological
distress in unaccompanied refugee minors.