During the last few years South East Europe is facing an ongoing burden of millions refugees coming from Asia, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan. The countries of the area are used as the gate for the refugees’ way to the Central and North Europe countries. The refugee children and adolescents are under a continuous impact of accumulative risk factors, related to pre, during and after their flight conditions, to present mental health problems.
The aim of this symposium is to present the various psychosocial and mental health issues as these are recognized and confronted in different involved countries such as Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Croatia and Cyprus.
The will be presented issues such as the impact of post traumatic stress disorder, the differences in psychopathology related to different status of immigrants, the longitudinal mental health consequences of the childhood trauma, the mental health policies which have been implemented to confront the refugee crisis and finally the role of cultural identity in clinical practice with refugee adolescents.