The Mental Health Needs of Asylum Seekers

The assignment explores the mental health needs of asylum seekers and refugees, highlighting the challenges they face due to destitution, inadequate care, and indefinite detention. It emphasizes the importance of community-based approaches to address these issues and improve the lives of refugees in their host countries.

Assessment Task 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Description of the issues discussed in assessment 2 ......................................................................1
Ways to resolve challenge ..............................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

Description of the issues discussed in assessment 2
This article will lay emphasises on the solutions of all such issues of the the Asylum
seekers who are being detained in the processing centres. Even though they are getting good
advices from Health professionals. As One of the issue which was discussed earlier the
improper treatment provided to them which is one of the major concern of Asylum seekers
(Sen, 2016). In recent time, there has been rise in problem relating to this issue and negatively
impacted on their health. Physical and mental health is also one of the major issue which
always been at the forefront in detention of the Asylum seekers. This issue has been caused due
to the the detention of the refugees as a large group who requires proper attention and individual
care of the health professions. Also, one more issue is been discussed which is Lack of food
availability and also lack of nutrient value in providing the eatables which is required the most.
As the refugees had to go through many challenges during the while fleeing from their origin
countries. so they need to be treated well served with the proper meals. The health professional
are been not able to treat refugees according to the mental and physical health status may be
because of their cross cultural or language differences. These differences may arise a problem of
miscommunication between the health care professionals and Asylum seekers who come from
different religions. Also, There are many issues faced by the nurses and health care professionals
at the time of providing care to refugee. The main barrier was identified human rights to asylum
seekers. Since, early 1990's Asylum seekers in UK have been made subject to an increasing array
of restrictions on the basic rights of refugees. So asylums seekers had to face many restrictions in
detention centres which results in raised issues of refugees being detained in processing centres.
Furthermore, in order to resolve such issues various solutions are been provided which
mainly supports the humanity in the form of the rights to asylum seekers. These solutions may
helps in many ways as refugees belongs to the different regions, so in order to overcome the
mental pressure and traumatic situations of the refugees, they need to be treated well and also
need to provided proper medications by the health care professions (Goodman And et.al., 2018).
For the sake of the humanity in the world, it needs lot of changes in the system of detaining the
asylum seekers in processing systems.
Solutions for resolving such issues of the Asylum seekers who are being detained in processing
centres for the long time, in-spite of good advice from the health professions. So here are some
ways to overcome the challenges.
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Ways to resolve challenge
Improper treatment can be resolved by eliminating the cultural and Language problem
can be termed as one of the major reason behind unethical behaviour of treating the refugees. So
one of the best solution to the problem is issues faced by the health care practitioners. It causes
lack of interpretation between the refugees and also nurses. So there is a need to hire an
interpreter who can communicate the actual mental and health status of the refugees to heath care
practitioners. As Refugees may have been exposed to physical and mental trauma where it might
be possible that they may had to suffer various challenges. Due to the different perspective and
understanding of the illness concept, they do not get treated according to the medical needs of
refugees. Interpreter will helps ion eliminating the issue of improper treatment to ill refugees.
However, it may raise financial problem among the government of the host country. Hiring of
the middle person for properly communicating all the physical and mental health illness of an
individual may helps in resolving the problem of better treatment to refugees. It is very important
to resolve this issue because it helps in improving the health conditions of the asylum seekers
who are being detained in processing centres (Crepet and et.al., 2017). Asylum seekers are
detained in processing system for maintaining their proper health and physical health after they
suffered from a big traumatic situation. For Refugees, who do not declare themselves as a
statutory authority, so the fear of detention may discourage access to health service.
Undocumented migrants are may be referred as a force migrant who are unable to claim for the
asylums are thus do not get proper medication and health care. Also, healthcare professional
working in asylum centres had repeatedly called for action to improve health care facilities for
refugees.
To resolve the issues of Human Rights, European Court for human right has repeatedly
held a constitution that guarantees the convention on human rights of Asylum seekers.
Restrictions on the asylum seeker rights can be justified by the introduction of the Article6. This
lead to the introduction of the Fast-track procedure for the non responsive appeal of rights to the
Asylum seekers who are being detained and processed in detention centres (Overcrowded
detention Centres, 2017).
Also, Asylum act of 1999 states the treatment of Claimants. The introduction of the
Governmental law leads to the solution of human rights issue among Asylum seekers. This
solution leads to the implementation of the Clause ousting in order to juridically review the
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decisions of the asylums. It helps the asylum seekers to overcome their mental and physical
situations during the migration to another countries (Bäärnhielm and et.al., 2017). Human right
act have protected the Rights of the Asylum Seekers helps in enabling the court to prohibit the
removal returning asylum seekers to their home country where they may get Flagrant breach.
The solution to provide the better food and proper meals to asylum seekers who are
being detained in the processing centres can be resolved by implementing Section 55 of the
Nationality and Asylum Act 2002. as the large number of Asylum seekers were made destitute
without money and they are also unable to claim for the asylum within 24 hours. So this issue
leads to the proper solution in 2005, as the decision court had come up with the implementation
of a law. This leads to the destitution for the asylum seekers in which standards were stated in
response to the inhuman and degraded treatment to asylum seekers. Also, this lead to the proper
food facilities and timely meals to the asylum seekers who are detained in processing centres.
This solution of this problem resulted towards the declaration of UDHR (Universal Declaration
of Human Rights) in which the refugees have a right to seek and enjoy the Asylum in other
country.
One of the the major solution to the problem to estimate the physical and mental health
status of the refugees, is to Pharmacotherapy has has been given according to the biological
factors of the individual Refugee. Some ethnic groups could have responded to their predictable
behaviour which may vary according to the gender, enzymatic and dietary differences of the
Asylums. Also better tools are provided in order to estimate the prevalences of the mental
disorder as well as to access the needs of the local refugee population (Shawyer and rt.al., 2017).
community-based approaches been forced for understanding and increasing the knowledge and
awareness to mental health issues of Asylums which have major supported the contribution
towards the adjusting their lives in hist country. The prospect of indefinite detention and
inadequate care could contribute towards deterioration of their mental health.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Sen, P., 2016. The mental health needs of asylum seekers and refugees–challenges and
solutions. BJPsych international. 13(2). pp.30-32.
Goodman, L.F. And et.al., 2018. A cross-sectional investigation of the health needs of asylum
seekers in a refugee clinic in Germany. BMC family practice. 19(1). p.64.
Crepet, A. and et.al., 2017. Mental health and trauma in asylum seekers landing in Sicily in
2015: a descriptive study of neglected invisible wounds. Conflict and health. 11(1). p.1.
Bäärnhielm, S. and et.al., 2017. Mental health for refugees, asylum seekers and displaced
persons: A call for a humanitarian agenda.
Shawyer, F. and rt.al., 2017. The mental health status of refugees and asylum seekers attending a
refugee health clinic including comparisons with a matched sample of Australian-born
residents. BMC psychiatry. 17(1). p.76.
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Overcrowded detention Centres. 2017. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.msf.org/forced-disembarkation-81-refugees-and-migrants-
misrata-libya>
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