Mental health care for migrants in the Netherlands: A decolonial perspective.

IF 2.8 2区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Global Mental Health Pub Date : 2025-08-06 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1017/gmh.2025.10038

Gian-Louis Hernandez, Melanie de Looper, Sabine Braun, Graham Hieke, Demi Krystallidou, Julia van Weert, Barbara Schouten

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Abstract

This study addresses the mental health needs of refugees and migrants in the Netherlands, highlighting the urgent public health challenges they face. Unique psychosocial hurdles, exacerbated by cultural dislocation, language barriers and systemic inequalities, hinder their access to quality mental healthcare. This study explores how coloniality intersects with mental healthcare access, using a decolonial framework to challenge stereotypes and assumptions that marginalize migrant voices. Through semi-structured interviews with migrants and language service providers, this research reveals the complexities of navigating the mental healthcare system. Findings reveal that temporality, professionalism and language barriers are key issues in migrants' mental healthcare journeys. We advocate for systemic changes that prioritize migrant perspectives. Ultimately, this study aims to inform policy and practice to enhance mental health services for migrant populations in the Netherlands and contribute to the broader dialogue on decolonization in mental health.

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荷兰移民的心理保健：非殖民视角。

这项研究解决了荷兰难民和移民的心理健康需求，突出了他们面临的紧迫的公共卫生挑战。独特的社会心理障碍，再加上文化错位、语言障碍和系统性不平等，阻碍了他们获得高质量的精神保健。本研究探讨了殖民如何与精神卫生保健获取相交，使用非殖民化的框架来挑战将移民声音边缘化的陈规定型观念和假设。通过对移民和语言服务提供者的半结构化访谈，本研究揭示了心理卫生保健系统导航的复杂性。研究结果表明，时间、专业性和语言障碍是移民心理健康旅程中的关键问题。我们提倡系统性变革，优先考虑移民的观点。最终，本研究旨在为政策和实践提供信息，以加强对荷兰移民人口的心理健康服务，并促进关于心理健康非殖民化的更广泛对话。

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Global Mental Health PSYCHIATRY-

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5.10%

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25 weeks

期刊介绍： lobal Mental Health (GMH) is an Open Access journal that publishes papers that have a broad application of ‘the global point of view’ of mental health issues. The field of ‘global mental health’ is still emerging, reflecting a movement of advocacy and associated research driven by an agenda to remedy longstanding treatment gaps and disparities in care, access, and capacity. But these efforts and goals are also driving a potential reframing of knowledge in powerful ways, and positioning a new disciplinary approach to mental health. GMH seeks to cultivate and grow this emerging distinct discipline of ‘global mental health’, and the new knowledge and paradigms that should come from it.