SALaM Ireland report published
The Study of Adolescent Lives after Migration (SALaM) to Ireland study investigated the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing and experiences of students aged 12-18 years who have resettled to Ireland from Arab-majority conflict-affected countries. The key findings show that Arabic-speaking students reported significantly worse mental health and wellbeing when compared to the general school population and that they experience many challenges within Irish schools. However, we identified a number of ways in which these students may be more effectively supported including: greater provision of language and socioemotional supports to accelerate language learning in order to help build peer relationships and a sense of school belonging; cultural awareness programmes for both teachers and students; and developing trusting and supportive teacher-student relationships. The final report is available here: SALaM Ireland_final report
The SALaM Ireland team members include Yvonne Leckey, Jack Horgan and Professor Sinéad McGilloway from the Centre for Mental Health and Community Research, Department of Psychology, and Dr Anthony Malone and Dr Rita Sakr from the Departments of Education and English respectively.
