Diminishing Mental Health: Violations of workers’ rights and expectations to follow policies demanding inhumane mistreatment of children

Abstract In this article, the author provides an analysis of the likely negative impacts on the mental health of children being held as undocumented immigrants in detention centers in the United States. Their psychological trauma involves isolation, separation anxiety, scopophobia, and fear of abandonment called “abandonment neurosis.” Children are being forcefully separated from their parents […]

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