Methods in prevention and intervention of mental health issues by school psychologists with California's refugee children

Project (M.A., Education (School Psychology)) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2010.Data for 2006 -2008 suggest that California resettled the largest numbers of refugees in the United States. These significant numbers has prompted the present study regarding new and ongoing challenges facing school psychologists in providing psychological services to refugee children. Results from a brief and limited survey of school psychologists in Sacramento County led this study to primarily focus on increasing school psychologists??? understanding of the essential traumatic experiences of refugee children and issues such as acculturative stress and school adjustment. In addition, the investigation examined culturally competent therapeutic methods for those children who are at greater risk for mental health problems.Education (School Psychology