The Role of Horticultural Therapy in the Treatment of Refugees with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cites that there are an unprecedented number of refugees. As of 2017, over 68.5 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes, with 25.4 million of this group being classified as refugees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2018). Often, mental health issues arise from the trauma that they face. Recently, the use of horticultural therapy, which uses gardening and plant-based activities as a form of treatment, has shown mental health improvements in military veterans and active duty soldiers diagnosed with stress related disorders. This paper will describe the role of horticultural therapy use in military veterans and active duty soldiers diagnosed with PTSD and apply these findings to refugee populations suffering from PTSD

Envelope from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Bad Godesberg, Bonn Branch Office to the American Joint Distribution Committee, Munich

White United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stationery with typewritten address to Dr. S. Rubi.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1932/thumbnail.jp

Moderate malnutrition: do we know how to manage it?

Prepared from 'Proceedings of the WHO/UNICEF/United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Consultation on the Management of Moderate Malnutrition in children under 5 years of age'

Rwanda returnee operation

Document collected by the University of Texas Libraries from the web-site of the Reseau Documentaire International Sur La Region Des Grands Lacs Africains (International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region). The Reseau distributes "gray literature", non-published or limited distribution government or NGO documents regarding the Great Lakes area of central Africa including Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.UT Librarie

The Evolution of the International Refugee Protection Regime

A short historical perspective on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is followed by a review of how the international refugee protection regime has evolved over the past half century

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Report on an office directed to protect and coordinate aid to refugees, including current challenges, resource availability, asylum crisis, and more