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Publication Date: December 1983
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Michael Roskin; Jeffrey L. Edleson
Research Area: Health; Population and demographics
Keywords: Immigration; Mental Health; Academic Research
Type: Report
Coverage: Israel
Abstract:
This article reports on immigrants in absorption centers who are at a higher risk of developing emotional difficulties. It appears that those showing less flexibility to adapt overtly and cognitively in the new society, with no close family in the country, and who are not religiously Orthodox seem at higher risk of developing emotional difficulties their counterparts.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 60: 2.