Separating Migrant Children from Their Parents

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I'm sure that some readers are very interested in the outcomes for migrant children of the practice of  separating them from their families.  Here are some things you might want to read about this, especially if you work directly  with children or with their families.  The first piece, from the NYT, is a description of the changed behavior of some children who have  gone through separation and then  been reunited with their families. It shows clearly that the problems are not  over when reunion has occurred.  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/migrant-children-separation-anxiety.html Here are a number of free articles from a professional journal, addressing a variety of problems related to early childhood trauma  resulting from violence and separation. As the leading publication for pediatric mental health, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has  published many articles demonstrating the damaging effects of early childhood trauma on later development, the role of parental stress in the  intergenerational transmission of both psychiatric and other medical outcomes, and the positive role of parents in promoting child and  adolescent mental health. We oppose the practice of separating immigrant children from their families. In collaboration with our publisher, Elsevier, we have created a free collection of articles published in JAACAP on the effects of separation,  early life trauma, and related topics, and will maintain and update it until this practice is no longer the norm. Select articles from this collection include: Mental health in Syrian refugee children resettling in the United States: war trauma, migration, and the role of parental stress Childhood trauma and illicit drug use in adolescence Traumatic stress interacts with bipolar disorder genetic risk to increase risk for suicide attempts Trauma exposure and externalizing disorders in adolescents Default-mode network abnormalities in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder Intergenerational transmission of maternal childhood maltreatment exposure: implications for fetal brain development The network structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms in children and adolescents exposed to disasters Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder in a national sample of adolescents Preventing children's posttraumatic stress after disaster with teacher-based intervention Developmental timing of trauma exposure relative to puberty and the nature of psychopathology among adolescent girls What are the transgenerational consequences of maternal childhood adversity and maternal stress during pregnancy? Transforming trajectories for traumatized children View the full collection of articles on the JAACAP.org website under the collections tab in the menu. View articles