# Issues and challenges in meeting the mental health needs of migrants and refugees - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/k5031 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: Issues and challenges in meeting the mental health needs of migrants and refugees | WCP 2026 Summary > Because migrants’ mental health needs extend beyond individual symptoms and are shaped by legal, social, and cultural conditions, care must be culturally respo… This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/k5031) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. Other SessionsMigration and Transcultural PsychiatryReview / Opinion # Issues and challenges in meeting the mental health needs of migrants and refugees Issues and challenges in addressing mental health needs of immigrants and refugees Presenter: Marianne C. Kastrup Country: Denmark Session: 4660 - SPECIALIST CORNER: EXPERT GROUP ON CULTURE Date: Sat, 26.09.2026, 14:45 - 14:57 Room: Hall A2 Because migrants’ mental health needs extend beyond individual symptoms and are shaped by legal, social, and cultural conditions, care must be culturally responsive, trauma-informed, legally informed, and integrated with social support. The presentation addresses why meeting migrants’ mental health needs is challenging: these needs are shaped by much more than individual symptoms, including migration histories, legal frameworks, social conditions, language barriers, culture, discrimination, and access to healthcare and other rights. Effective care must therefore be culturally responsive, trauma-informed, aware of the legal dimensions, and integrated with social support. Another argument presented is that migrants should be recognized as diverse individuals with different strengths, relationships, expectations, and capacities. The most promising approaches involve providing accessible mental health care alongside interpreting services, community outreach, efforts to combat stigma, legal and social support, workforce training, and migrant participation in service design. The presentation concludes that meeting migrants’ mental health needs is both a public health priority and a matter of human dignity; societies that provide this support do more than treat distress—they create conditions in which newcomers can rebuild their lives, contribute, and feel a sense of belonging without losing their connection to their own cultures. How to cite this study APA 7: Kastrup, M. C., et al. (2026, September 26). Issues and challenges in addressing mental health needs of immigrants and refugees [Oral presentation]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. Vancouver: Kastrup MC, et al. Issues and challenges in addressing mental health needs of immigrants and refugees [oral presentation]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. Author names and title formatting were generated automatically from the congress system; please check them against the original poster before use. ## On the same topic - [Psikiyatrik hastalık ve şiddet: aile ruh sağlığı ve kültürlerarası yönlere odaklanma](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0096) - [İspanyolca konuşan popülasyonlar için bir dijital kliniğin kültürel ve dilsel uyarlaması](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0438) - [Göçmen ruh sağlığında eğitim boşluklarının incelenmesi: ülke genelinde bir ABD psikiyatri asistanı örnekleminin bakış açıları](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0519) - [Kültürler arasında aşk: göç ve kültürlerarası ilişkilerde çift terapisi](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0592) - [İran kültürünün ebeveynlik biçimi aracılığıyla çocukluktan yetişkinliğe gelişim üzerindeki etkisinin Y ve Z kuşaklarında incelenmesi](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0594) [All WCP 2026 summaries](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler) --- Kaynak / Source: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/k5031 İletişim / Contact: Bağdat Caddesi, Veli Güneysu Apt. No:453 K:4 D:9, Suadiye / Kadıköy, İstanbul · +90 532 642 95 25 · info@alisanburak.com · https://alisanburak.com/bagdat-caddesi-psikoterapi-iletisim