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According to a joint study by the Harvard Chen School of Public Health Experts, immigration and customs enforces (ICE) migrant detention centers are not getting appropriate screening, diagnosis and treatment for children in mental health conditions.
The study was published on March 3 in Lancet Regional Health – USA. Includes Harvard Chen’s co -authors Dennis ConnechovFor, for, for,. Margaret SullivanAnd Vaselia DigidkiAll Francis-Zavir Bignod Center for Health and Human Rights.
Researchers worked with Russia, a non -profit that provides legal services to political asylum seekers and immigrants in immigration facilities, so that between June 2018 and October 2020, the Ice Carnis Family detention facility was detained for 165 children. They were found to have many inequality in mental health care in this facility. For example, the staff used an unhealthy mental health screening tool, considered below the standard of care for pediatric methods in the United States, in addition, 165 children were displayed, only two (1 % of the group) were identified as any kind of mental distress, though it is common in the United States.
According to researchers, the study recommends the need for a more appropriate screening tool.
He wrote, “Our searches provide proof of timely, appropriate and standard mental health screening, case management, and limited access to care.” “Without the resources needed to identify and solve trauma, these children are at risk of long -lasting physical and psychological stress and developmental delays.”
Researchers called for snow accountable for the quality of care for immigrants appointed by US and international law. He offered many recommendations to help meet these standards, such as minimizing the time spending time in detention, increasing legal monitoring and implementing legal monitoring of immigrant children’s proper mental health care, and implementing them on the mission of Homeland Security Officers.
However, their final recommendation was that immigrants stop completely detaining children. Researchers wrote, “To fulfill our commitment to protect children,” we advocate for an agency equipped to eliminate the detention of children’s immigrants and to meet the needs of these children. “
Read the study: Pediatric Mental Health Screening and Care to Immigration Cathies
