The DREAM Project: Diversity, Research, and Engagement for Adolescent Mental Health

在英国，来自移民背景的儿童和青少年人数正在增加。这些人可能会增加精神健康状况不佳的风险，如抑郁，焦虑和创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）。这可能是因为他们在移徙之前、期间和之后经历了压力或创伤事件。例如，儿童可能在其原籍国经历过暴力、冲突或自然灾害。他们可能经历了长途旅行到英国，或者在抵达英国之前经历了难民营或拘留中心，危险的过境路线或恶劣的生活条件等压力情况。来自英国移民背景的儿童和青少年也可能在这里经历压力，如贫困，暴力，耻辱或歧视，暴力或社会孤立。关于如何保护这些儿童和青少年的心理健康或如何预防不良心理健康结果的研究有限。对于如何最好地与这些群体建立联系以支持他们参与研究或卫生服务，或确保干预措施是适当的，有效的和可持续的，也知之甚少。创造性和艺术为基础的方法，如绘画，绘画，戏剧，音乐和舞蹈已被用来连接和参与来自不同背景的青年以有意义的方式，并促进心理健康和复原力。该项目的目的是与来自移民背景的儿童和青少年合作，以加强我们对这些青年的心理健康需求的了解，以及如何促进和保护他们的心理健康。该项目将有三个相互关联的部分，其中我们将：1）与来自研究，卫生服务和社区组织等一系列学科和部门的合作者建立一个研究小组，并创建一个青年小组，通过该小组，我们将与儿童和青少年合作开发以艺术为基础的干预措施; 2）通过调查收集关于移民背景儿童和青少年心理健康需求的证据，以及他们对压力源、复原力和参与研究和卫生服务的障碍的概念化，和一个photovoice项目，使用摄影来探索他们的经验;和3）开发，测试和评估与青年团体合作的艺术为基础的干预。研究结果将与研究人员和更广泛的社区分享，并将加强我们对来自不同背景的儿童和青少年心理健康需求的理解，并为未来的研究和干预提供信息。

The number of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds is increasing in the UK. These individuals may be at increased risk of poor mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This may be because they have experienced stressful or traumatic events before, during, and following migration. For example, children may have experienced violence, conflict, or natural disasters in their countries of origin. They may have had long journeys to the UK, or experienced stressful situations such as refugee camps or detention centres, dangerous transit routes, or poor living conditions before arriving in the UK. Children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds in the UK may also experience stressors here such as poverty, violence, stigma or discrimination, violence, or social isolation. There has been limited research on ways to protect the mental health of these children and adolescents, or how to prevent poor mental health outcomes. There is also little understanding of how to best connect with these groups to support their engagement in research or health services, or to ensure that interventions are appropriate, effective, and sustainable. Creative and arts-based approaches such as drawing, painting, theatre, music, and dance have been used to both connect and engage with youth from diverse backgrounds in a meaningful way, and to promote mental health and resilience. The aim of this project is to collaborate with children and adolescence from migrant backgrounds to strengthen what we know about the mental health needs of these youth, and how to promote and protect their mental health. The project will have three interlinked parts in which we will: 1) Develop a research group with collaborators from a range of disciplines and sectors such as research, health services, and community organisations, and the creation of a youth group through which we will collaborate with children and adolescents to develop an art-based intervention; 2) Gather evidence on the mental health needs of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds and their conceptualisations of stressors, resilience, and barriers to engagement with research and health services through a survey, and a photovoice project using photography to explore their experiences; and 3) Develop, test, and evaluate an art-based intervention in collaboration with the youth group. The findings will be shared with researchers, and the wider community, and will strengthen our understandings of the mental health needs of children and adolescents from diverse backgrounds, and inform future research and interventions.