HLSC220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Well-Founded Relation, Serco, Systematic Review
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The report reveals about half the asylum seekers at processing centres on. Nauru and manus island are suffering from significant depression, stress or anxiety. Dr choong-siew yong, a former member of the australian government"s now disbanded health advisory group on detention, says the report confirms what was already suspected about the conditions in offshore detention. "the environment and fact that people have such a high-level uncertainty about their futures is a major factor rates of symptoms is so high," "if processing times were faster, if people had more certainty about the outcome i suspect that you wouldn"t see these sorts of rates of mental disorders. " Refugees and asylum seekers held on manus island are battling some of the highest rates of depressive and anxiety disorders recorded and this is overwhelmingly the result of their detention experience, a study has found.
