Description:
Many newcomers can find themselves socially isolated in their country of resettlement, having left behind important relationships with friends, neighbors and community contacts. These relationships play important roles navigating stressors, navigating environments, and accessing resources. Thus, newcomers can be missing important resources to help them navigate new systems, and overcome resettlement stressors like language barriers, challenges with credential recognition, and un/under employment.
Join this webinar with Dr. Michaela Hynie and after attending you will be able to:
- understand the different ways in which relationships support coping with resettlement stressors
- distinguish between commonly used concepts in the study of relationships, like social support and social capital
- explain how social support influences mental health
- identify some potentially negative aspects of relationships and social networks in the resettlement process
Speaker:
Michaela Hynie, PhD
Dr. Michaela Hynie is a Professor of Psychology at York University with expertise in migration and the social determinants of mental health. Dr. Hynie conducts qualitative and quantitative community based research in two broad areas of well-being. The first focuses on building and evaluating interventions that can enhance social networks and social support, locally, nationally and internationally. The second emphasizes the impact of immigration policies and services on the health and mental health of refugees, refugee claimants and those with precarious migration status.
In the field of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Dr. Hynie is an Executive Committee Member of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, and a former President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
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