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Indicators of the well-being of refugee children are under explored, especially from children’s perspectives. We used a child-friendly computer-assisted interview (CAI) to investigate patterns in refugee children’s positive and negative indicators of well-being as they resettled in Australia. Thirty-seven children aged 7 to 13 years were clients of a specialized refugee trauma service. Analyzes revealed 3 cluster subgroups with distinctive patterns of indicators of high, moderate, low levels of well-being indicators. One subgroup with a high level of well-being differed from low and moderate level subgroups in consistently expressing indicators of faring well with little worrying, and the absence of intrusive worries. A subgroup with a low level of well-being expressed indicators of not faring well, worrying about family members, and having worries that intruded in daily functions. A subgroup with a moderate level of well-being differed from the low cluster in having less severe and less intrusive worries. Subgroups expressed common positive indicators of what they needed to help them feel better, their reliance on family members for help, and the forms of close interactions and talk they received as help from family members. Implications include the value of enabling refugee children to express their perspectives, and the importance of including these perspectives as a basis for tailoring intervention strategies for children and their families and for including children’s perspectives in policy and service decisions and strategies.

This article reports analyses of the perspectives on their wellbeing expressed by four unaccompanied minor refugees resettling in Australia. We used a computer-assisted interview (CAI) to set up a research environment to facilitate young people's expressions and to treat them and their expressed perspectives with respect and integrity. Participants' data are represented in tables as full transcripts with CAI questions and tasks, and are analyzed using exegetical textual analysis. Analyses reveal similarities and differences in young people's themes and personalized concerns in relation to their life circumstances in resettlement. All four unaccompanied minors were worried about the families from whom they were isolated. Two young women who were humanitarian refugees were preoccupied with family separation and reunion, and also with their own inner states and behavior. Two young men who had been asylum seekers were focused on family and their own educational advancement. The value of the CAI approach is discussed in relation to criticisms of reductionism in quantitative and qualitative data; its ability to support young refugees to express their views with agency and confidence; and the representation of young people's expressed perspectives as a basis for understanding and for supportive programs.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160268, Este artículo informa los análisis de las perspectivas sobre su bienestar expresadas por cuatro menores refugiados no acompañados reasentados en Australia. Se utilizó una entrevista asistida por computadora (EAC) para establecer un entorno de investigación que facilitara las expresiones de los jóvenes, y para tratarlos a ellos y a sus puntos de vista con respeto e integridad. Los datos de los participantes están representados en tablas así como las transcripciones completas con preguntas y tareas de las entrevistas asistida por computadora (EAC), y se analizan mediante análisis textual exegético. Los análisis revelan similitudes y diferencias en las temáticas de los jóvenes, y preocupaciones personalizadas en relación con sus circunstancias de vida en el reasentamiento. Los cuatro menores no acompañados estaban preocupados por las familias de las que fueron aislados. Dos mujeres jóvenes, refugiadas humanitarias, estaban preocupadas por la separación familiar y el reencuentro, y también por sus propios estados internos y comportamiento. Dos hombres jóvenes que habían sido solicitantes de asilo se enfocaron en la familia y en su propio avance educativo. El valor del enfoque de EAC se discute en relación a las críticas sobre su reduccionismo en datos cuantitativos y cualitativos; su capacidad para apoyar a jóvenes refugiados a expresar sus puntos de vista con agencia y confianza; y la representación de las perspectivas expresadas por los jóvenes como una base para el entendimiento y para programas de apoyo.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160268, In diesem Beitrag beschäftigten wir uns mit dem Wohlbefinden von vier nichtbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen nach ihrer Ankunft in Australien, deren Perspektiven mittels eines Computergestützten Interviews (CI) erhoben wurden. Die entlang von CI-Fragen und -Aufgaben erhobenen Daten wurden in Tabellen als Komplett-Transkripte präsentiert und einer Textanalyse unterzogen. Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den individuell relevanten Themen und Sorgen, bezogen auf die Ansiedelung in der neuen Heimat, konnten so herausgearbeitet werden. Alle Jugendlichen beklagten die Trennung von ihren Herkunftsfamilien. Dies betraf vor allem zwei weibliche Flüchtlinge und deren intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen des Getrenntseins und Wiederzusammenkommens mit ihren Familien und damit einhergehenden emotionalen und Verhaltensproblemen. Die beiden jungen Männer beschäftigte neben familiären Sorgen vor allem die Möglichkeit der eigenen Aus- und Weiterbildung.Die CI-Nutzung wird vor allem diskutiert vor dem Hintergrund einer von einigen Seiten befürchteten Reduktion qualitativer und quantitativer Daten. Zusätzlich skizzieren wir Möglichkeiten der Nutzung von CI, um das Erleben der Befragten angemessen abzubilden sowie die Nutzung der so erzielten Ergebnisse u.a. für Förderprogramme.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160268