Monica Indart

• Psy.D.
• Associate Clinical/Teaching Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Religious meaning-making may facilitate psychological adjustment to even the most extreme traumatic stressors, including war and forced displacement. Yet, few studies have examined the religious meaning-making trajectories of refugees and none from an Islamic perspective. This qualitative cross-sectional study investigated Syrian Muslims’ postwar m...

This article evaluates and elucidates the intersections across social and economic determinants of health and social structures that maintain current inequities and structural violence with a focus on the impact on imMigrants (immigrants and migrants), refugees, and those who remain invisible (e.g., people without immigration status who reside in t...

As research subjects, refugees have numerous potential vulnerabilities. This study aimed to examine the ethics- and trauma-informed challenges of implementing a mental health research protocol with Syrian refugees living in Portugal. Guided by the integrated meaning-making model, the research project “Journeys in Meaning” employed a mixed-methods c...

Refugees are disproportionately affected by extreme traumatic events that can violate core beliefs and life goals (i.e., global meaning) and cause significant distress. This mixed‐methods study used an exploratory sequential design to assess meaning violations in a sample of Syrian refugees living in Portugal. For this purpose, we cross‐culturally...

The centrality of the collective to Syrian identity and the ability of war to disrupt community ties have led to significant violations of Syrians’ pre-war assumptions about themselves, the world, and their place in the world. Guided by the integrated meaning-making model, this qualitative cross-sectional study assessed Syrian refugees’ meaning tra...

Objective: This mixed-methods study assessed the prevalence of pre-and postmigration trauma and stressors as determinants of refugee mental health in resettlement. Method: Forty-four war-affected Syrian civilians arriving in Portugal through four streams—UNHCR resettlement, EU relocation, spontaneous asylum, and higher education programs for refuge...

Objective: This mixed-methods study assessed the prevalence of pre- and post-migration trauma and stressors as determinants of refugee mental health in resettlement. Method: Forty-four war-affected Syrian civilians arriving in Portugal through four streams – UNHCR resettlement, EU relocation, spontaneous asylum, and higher education programs for re...

In 2018, in response to increasingly oppressive and widespread federal immigration enforcement actions in the United States (U.S.) and around the globe – including family separation, immigration raids, detention, deportation of people who have lived in the country for much of their lives – the Society for Community Research & Action produced a stat...

The Syrian Civil War has caused mass displacement of civilians, some of whom find safety in countries of resettlement. After enduring multiple potentially-traumatic events pre-and during flight, in resettlement, survivors of the refugee experience are subject to multiple stressors as they try to rebuild their lives. Our goal is to identify the prev...

Refugees are survivors of extreme, cumulative potentially-traumatic events (PTEs), which can violate their goals, beliefs and sense of purpose (i.e. global meaning) and cause significant psychological distress. Despite being disproportionately affected by PTEs, there are few psychological instruments available in refugees’ native languages, and whi...

Refugees are survivors of persecution and multiple, violent traumatic events, including war and torture. Despite severity of trauma, a growing body of literature suggests that survivors of refugee trauma experience positive psychological adjustment and perceived growth, thus achieved through meaning-making efforts that enable individuals to return...

Clinical psychology is an underdeveloped profession in Ghana, with insufficient empirical research to guide interventions. In the face of this, it is unclear whether individuals may benefit more from localized interventions that incorporate cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs, rather than solely Westernized interventions. To better inform int...

Over the course of the past two decades, the impact of global disasters and complex emergencies has increasingly become a part of inter-disciplinary dialogue. Economic, political, biopsychosocial, and sociocultural aspects of large-scale events have drawn attention to the widespread and long-term consequences of such events (Calhoun & Tedeschi, 199...

"Graduate Program in Applied and Professional Psychology." Includes abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-263).