Interview and Research Paper
Afaf Alghamdi
Sacred Heart University The interview
My interviewee is a 35-year-old refugee camp counselor named Nada Al-Mousawi who studied Masters in Psychology in London. She said she was brought up in a middle class family in Sanaa, Yemen. Nada emigrated from Yemen to the UK when she was 30. Just one month after finishing her Masters study in psychology, she got her dream job working on implementing depression intervention at undocumented minorities in UK. Two months later, she was deployed to work in the field office on the Somali-Kenyan borders. One of each three refugees feel depression as demonstrated in a study by Wong, Cheung, Miu, Chen, Loper and Holroyd (2017). The study surveyed 374 African refugees…show more content… She added all environmental incidents since childhood are considered to form a whole analysis of the case. The intervention depends on data collection from the case and from official records. Then, each case is engaged in a totally different environment with different people to overcome past memories. Nada, though she is in only her mid-thirties, seems to have good experience in counseling and mental health intervention. She has volunteered with different organizations. Nada mentions two cases make her still feel overwhelmed. The first case is, Sarah, an 18-year old adolescent Somali who was depressed over a rape experience happened to her in Somalia; and the second is, Samuel, a 65-year old man who suffers depression over an unsuccessful injury he experienced 5 years…show more content… This is confirmed by Gholipour (2017) who indicates that depression occurs because of imbalance in chemicals of the brain. This imbalance is caused by some distressing life situations, including early childhood trauma, and a job or a beloved loss. Sarah's depression started from the oppression and rape she experienced in Somalia, which split her family apart. Sarah feels no hope in life and needs hard work to rebuild her attitudes. Rieckmann, Wadsworth, and Deyhle (2004) studied the interrelationships between different cultural identity, and depression in adolescents including 197 female, 135 male. They found out that increased control and reduced stressful triggers resulted in decreased depression. The study included perceived discrimination as an element for increasing depression. In another study by Mhaidat and Alharbi (2016) on female adolescent refugees in Jordan, the female refugee adolescents demonstrated depression of middle level with middle level of insecurity. For Sarah's depression was also attributed to her feeling of insecurity and fear of people. According to Belsky (2016), adolescents are very socially sensitive; and studies confirm the stress stereotypes connected to this stage of lifespan. Therefore, we worked on Sarah's depression because she is liable to take dangerous risks. This risk-taking could have fatal consequences including drug abuse and
