This thesis examines the concept of identity for new migrants in the context of a transcultural child psychiatry clinic. In particular, it analyses the evolution of feelings of otherness and power relations in the clinical request and the therapeutic process. It uses a multiple case study design to analyze six cases in depth and confront the perspectives of the involved actors (child, parents, therapists) at the time of the first encounter in the clinic and six months later. Results show strengths in families in spite of adversity, independence in the perspectives of the different actors, and the centrality of the migration experience. They also show a complexification of representations through time. The clinical space seems to play a mediator role and to be a useful starting point in the reconstruction of community links and in the negotiation of relations with the host society.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.80339 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Nadeau, Lucie |
| Contributors | Rousseau, Cecile (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002031990, proquestno: AAIMQ98708, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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