[Refugees and mental health - what can doctors do?].

The influx of Ukraine refugees confronts doctors with the effects of forced migration. Refugees are at risk for the development of mental health problems, due to traumatic experiences and unfavorable living circumstances post-migration (poverty, unemployment). Person-centered cultural sensitive care contributes to timely recognition and treatment of mental distress.

A review of mental health treatment dropout by ethnic minority youth.

A large proportion of treatments in youth mental health care are prematurely terminated by the patient. Treatment dropout can have severe consequences. Since ethnic minority youth are treated less often for mental disorders than other youth, it is important to analyse their risk for dropout and to determine if there are ethnicity-specific determinants.

A meta-analytic review on treatment dropout in child and adolescent outpatient mental health care.

A large proportion (28% up to 75%) of the treatments in youth mental health care results in premature termination (dropout). It is important to gain knowledge of the determinants of dropout because it can have very severe consequences. The aim of our meta-analytic review was to provide an overview of findings from empirical studies on this subject.

Ethnic differences in utilization of youth mental health care.

Objectives: There is an overall underutilization of youth mental health care (YMHC). It is unknown whether underutilization differs per ethnic group. Therefore, this study is aimed at gaining insight into the effects of ethnicity, age and gender on this utilization.