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Citation

Brown-Bowers A, McShane K, Wilson-Mitchell K, Gurevich M. Health (London) 2014; 19(3): 318-335.

Affiliation

Ryerson University, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1363459314554315

PMID

25389234

Abstract

Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs in the world. Just over 48 percent of Canadian refugees are women, with many of them of childbearing age and pregnant. Refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada face a five times greater risk of developing postpartum depression than Canadian-born women. Mainstream psychological approaches to postpartum depression emphasize individual-level risk factors (e.g. hormones, thoughts, emotions) and individualized treatments (e.g. psychotherapy, medication). This conceptualization is problematic when applied to refugee and asylum-seeking women because it fails to acknowledge the migrant experience and the unique set of circumstances from which these women have come. The present theoretical article explores some of the consequences of applying this psychiatric label to the distress experienced by refugee and asylum-seeking women and presents an alternative way of conceptualizing and alleviating this distress.


Language: en

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