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The Mental Health Pattern of Migrants: Is There a Euphoric Period Followed By a Mental Health Crisis?

Regina Pernice

Judith Brook

Sluzki's 1986 mental health model of the migratory process was tested with migrants (both refugees and immigrants), to New Zealand. Its central feature, suggesting an initial symptom free and euphoric phase after arrival in the country of settlement, followed by a crisis stage, was examined for 129 Southeast Asian refugees, 57 Pacific Island immigrants and 63 British immigrants. A questionnaire and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25, in English and in three Southeast Asian language translations, were administered face-to-face. All respondents had arrived in New Zealand within the last 15 years. The findings did not support Sluzki's model. Refugees and immigrants in the group with less than six months of residence were not symptom free. Neither did the group with six months to six years residence demonstrate a deterioration in mental health. However, mean depression levels were slightly lower for those who had lived in New Zealand for over six years, suggesting that mental health may improve the longer both refugees and immigrants reside in the host country.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 42, No. 1, 18-27 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409604200103
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