Post-migration living difficulties, discrimination, and mental health of traumatized refugees in Germany: data from the project for timely and need-adapted treatment in a stepped-care setting.

Asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) experience many short-term and long-term post-migration stressors, e.g. discrimination after resettlement, leading to increased psychiatric morbidity in this population.

Implementing a Need-Adapted Stepped-Care Model for Mental Health of Refugees: Preliminary Data of the State-Funded Project "RefuKey".

Refugees have been shown to be a rather vulnerable population with increased psychiatric morbidity and lack of access to adequate mental health care. By expanding regional psychosocial and psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care structures and adapting psychiatric routine care to refugees' needs, the state-funded project "refuKey" based in Lower Saxony, Germany, pursues to ease access to mental health care and increase service quality for refugees. A stepped-care treatment model along with intercultural opening of mental health care services is proposed.