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Publication Date: June 1996
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Miriam Yaglom
Research Area: Population and demographics; Social conditions
Keywords: Youth; Mental Health; Immigration
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This article integrates a three-year experience of working with Soviet adolescents and their families in individual, family, and group psychotherapy that focused on facilitating their adjustment process. For Soviet emigre teenagers, this adjustment process is greatly affected by their difficulty accomplishing the necessary developmental tasks of adolescence: separation and individuation. The healthy process of adaptation to life in a new country requires mourning of the losses that resulted from emigration. The inability to go through the mourning process on the family and individual level impedes the process of separation and individuation.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.4, Summer 1996.