1. The needs and strengths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in Scotland.
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Hopkins, Peter and Hill, Malcolm
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ADAPTABILITY (Personality) , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *COUNSELING , *EDUCATION , *ENGLISH as a foreign language , *HOUSING , *MEDICAL needs assessment , *NEEDS assessment , *REFUGEES , *PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience , *SOCIAL capital , *HIERARCHY of needs theory (Psychology) , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children seeking refuge in safer parts of the world have a wide range of needs. This paper discusses the main needs of unaccompanied minors drawing upon the views of service providers who work with or for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in Scotland, as well as the perspectives of unaccompanied minors themselves. The complexity of the children's needs is explored with a framework considering their process of resettlement, looking at the present first, the future next and the past last. We also explored the strengths and resilience of the unaccompanied children consulted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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