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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jwmap.2020.Vol3.no2.21

The Role of Social Work in Mental Health in a Variable Multicultural Environment

SEENIVASAN, R. (Dept of Mathematical Economics, School of Economics, M.K. University)

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Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology / v.3, no.2, 2020 , pp. 21-26 More about this Journal

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to capture this situation within the changes that take place due to it, inside the Greek society where there is a great need for professional social workers who are able to work targeted and effectively with foreigners, both children and adults, who have or develop mental health problems for the very first time. Over the recent decades the increasing number of migration flows has exerted and continues to exert great pressure on the health system and on the welfare structures of Greece. The bases for the development of a rudimentary reception and integration system that still is in progress have been delayed, while there has been no happy medium, between the enormous pressure that foreigner users of this system put on, and the humanitarian obligation of a well-governed state towards all residents of the country. Straight through everyday clinical practice in the field of intercultural work, social work has the knowledge and techniques for a total management of emerging problems and at the same time provides a value system with an ethical background which approaches refugees and migrants in order to provide quality services, mostly to users of mental health services.

Keywords

Mental Health; Multicultural Social Work Practice; Cultural Identity; Children and Adolescents;

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