A faculty member is explaining the impact of immigration on mental health to a group of nursing students. What information should the faculty member provide?
A.
Immigrants have multiple sources for health care, so their needs should be met.
B.
Meeting basic human needs often outweighs the need for mental health.
C.
Refugees and immigrants do not often have mental health problems.
D.
Because immigrants do not speak English, mental health assessment is difficult.
ANS: B
New immigrants to this country are often consumed with learning English, getting jobs, and adapting to an entirely different way of life in a new world. Often meeting these basic human needs consumes family energy, leaving family members no resources to identify and seek treatment for psychosocial or cognitive disorders. Immigrants suffer from disparities in health care, and often their health-care needs are unmet. Immigrants and refugees do have mental health problems, especially if they have come from war-torn or violent societies. Not all immigrants are non-English-speaking individuals.
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