Family Process
Volume 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-160

Family consequences of refugee trauma (Article)

Weine S.* , Muzurovic N. , Kulauzovic Y. , Besic S. , Lezic A. , Mujagic A. , Muzurovic J. , Spahovic D. , Feetham S. , Ware N. , Knafl K. , Pavkovic I.
  • a Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, MC 912, 1601 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • b University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
  • c Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
  • d Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
  • e Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
  • f College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
  • g Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
  • h Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
  • i College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
  • j Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States
  • k College of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
  • l Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States

Abstract

Objective: To construct a model on the consequences of political violence for refugee families based upon a qualitative investigation. Methods: This study used a grounded-theory approach to analyze qualitative evidence from the CAFES multi-family support and education groups with Bosnian refugee families in Chicago. Textual coding and analysis was conducted using ATLAS/ti for Windows. Results: A grounded-theory model of Family Consequences of Refugee Trauma (FAMCORT) was constructed that describes Displaced Families of War across four realms of family life: (1) changes in family roles and obligations, (2) changes in family memories and communications, (3) changes in family relationships with other family members: and (4) changes in family connections with the ethnic community and nation state. In each realm, the model also specifies family strategies, called Families Rebuilding Lives, for managing those consequences. Conclusions: Political violence leads to changes in multiple dimensions of family life and also to strategies for managing those changes. Qualitative family research is useful in better understanding refugee families and in helping them through family-oriented mental health services.

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Index Keywords

Models, Psychological psychological model refugee psychological aspect Communication Family Therapy interpersonal communication human Refugees war Chicago violence Internationality Bosnia and Herzegovina international cooperation ethnology qualitative research United States Bosnia-Herzegovina Humans family homicide Article Family Relations adult migration family relation posttraumatic stress disorder Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Emigration and Immigration Child
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-3142711583&doi=10.1111%2fj.1545-5300.2004.04302002.x&partnerID=40&md5=8d9ec8491b0b010703a153fe7dfd78ac
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2004.04302002.x
ISSN: 00147370
Cited by: 105
Original Language: English