Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMottEuropean Graduate School · AHS
Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott
PhD in Expressive Arts and Refugees
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Introduction
Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott currently works as a Professor at the AHS div., European Graduate School. Melinda does research in Community and Group Psychotherapy and Expressive Arts. Their current project is Implementation of EXIT in schools, health centres and reception centres. UNN is responsible for a research project looking at the impact of EXIT in North Norway. A certificate program starts at NIKUT including EXIT in 2018. In addition EXIT training programs exist on Malta and in Germany. Melinda has a part time position as a senior professor at the University of South-east Norway and is the pedagogical leader of the Expressive Arts program.
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This article is about Expressive Arts (EXA) as a group intervention with survivors of war and human-induced trauma living in exile. The therapeutic factors in EXA groups are presented. Expressive Arts in Transition (EXIT), an early intervention manual carried out with 71 unaccompanied refugee boys is discussed.
This is the first controlled study of an expressive arts group intervention with unaccompanied minor asylum seeking children. The aim of the study was to examine whether such an intervention may alleviate symptoms of trauma and enhance life satisfaction and hope. One hundred forty five unaccompanied minor refugee boys with their stated age between...
Objective: This is the first controlled study of an expressive arts group intervention with unaccompanied minor asylum seeking children. The aim of the study was to examine whether such an intervention may alleviate symptoms of trauma and enhance life satisfaction.
Methods: 145 unaccompanied minor refugee boys with their stated age between 15 and 1...
Self-report screening is an important element of transcultural research. Problems concerning illiteracy, cultural sensitivity, and possible misunderstandings have been handled differently in different settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of two well-known instruments: the Hopkins Symptoms Check List (HSCL-25), and the Harvar...
Objectives
To examine the mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors prospectively during the asylum-seeking process, with a focus on specific stages in the asylum process, such as age assessment, placement in a supportive or non-supportive facility and final decision on the asylum applications.
Design
This was a2½ year follow-up study of unacc...
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) are known to be subjected to several potentially traumatic life events, risking more mental health problems than other populations of same age. In this study, we aimed to explore the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity at an early stage after arrival to the host country. We performed structured clinical...
Despite increasing numbers of unaccompanied refugee minors (UM) in Europe and heightened concerns for this group, research on their mental health has seldom included the factor “time since arrival.” As a result, our knowledge of the mental health statuses of UM at specific points in time and over periods in their resettlement trajectories in Europe...
Unaccompanied minor refugee boys - early intervention with Expressive Arts. Film as testimony.
