,The Emotional Health of English Speaking Immigrants to Israel

The Emotional Health of English Speaking Immigrants to Israel


 

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.