Abstract
Migration, especially for immigrants, causes significant changes in the lives of individuals. Although immigrants may face several problems related to mental health, the disciplines that examine mental health, such as counseling, psychology, and psychiatry, have not been adequately interested in this issue. Identifying problems of immigrants will allow a host society to understand their problems better. In this study, problems of immigrants are discussed as three stages: pre-migration, migration, and post-migration. Immigrants are found extensively among targeted groups of counselors offering mental health services at many different institutions. For this reason, the results are evaluated for mental health professionals, especially counselors.
This study is composed from “Self construals, adjustment problems and coping styles of internalmigrant and non-migrant adolescents,” accepted as a master’s thesis by the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Hacettepe University, in the 2014–2015 academic year.
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Bozdağ, F., Bilge, F. (2019). Migration Process and Its Effects on Mental Health. In: Erçetin, Ş., Potas, N. (eds) Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2017. ICCLS 2017. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89875-9_8
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