Roundtable: Child psychology in asylum and immigration cases

Academic research is normally advanced by researchers performing a systematic review of existing literature, identifying gaps, or questions still unanswered, and then designing new research studies to fill those gaps.  At CSEL we want to go further.  We need to know that our research is not just interesting academically, but useful in practice. 

Digested: Overgeneral memory in refugees and asylum seekers

Have you ever wondered whether the effects of trauma on memory are the same across all cultures?

Image by: Dierk Schaefer

CSEL Trustee Chris Brewin, Associate Researcher Belinda Graham and Jane Herlihy have recently published a new study in the Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, to investigate the link between PTSD and overgeneral memory in refugees and asylum seekers from 18 different countries. Click here to access the full paper (£), here for a pre-print copy of the paper, or read through our digest below.