On Neurodivergence & Refugee Communities
Neurodivergent Narratives Podcast
English - December 06, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 69 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement adhd autistics mental health black mental health mental wellbeing neurodivergent intersectionality self improvement actually autistic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week's episode looks predominately at refugee (although, I do think I mention immigrant populations occasionally too) populations and my thoughts about some of the research I've been doing around lack of mental health support. I don’t hear a lot talked about this community when speaking about ADHD or neurodivergence and that's a problem especially with the kind of things I learned. Indeed, there aren't many studies on it either and when there are, they tend to focus on refugees living within certain countries. Culturally competent care is so incredibly necessary because I think this episode shows how clinician biases can really keep people from seeing beyond what they want to see and not what else could be true at the same time too. This is one of a few episodes I've recorded on this topic around immigrant, refugee and asylum-seeking communities and neurodivergence.
Three thoughts on:
1. Significantly higher mental health needs
2. PTSD and depression are the most frequently diagnosed
3. Reasons for underutilized services
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Association between immigrant background and ADHD: a nationwide population-based case-control study
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