Institutional Mental Health Support Systems Towards Ukrainian Adolescents Refugee after 24.02.2022 on the Example of Poland and France.

The process of being forcibly resettled in another country is usually so difficult that everything that the definition of health created by the WHO, namely that it is a state of mental well-being that allows people to cope with stress, realize their potential, learn and work effectively and organize themselves in social life (WHO, 2024) remains overwhelmingly beyond the reach of migrants, especially those in their teens. Repeatedly misunderstood by the institutional or non-governmental support system, they represent the ‘refugee’ syndrome, which we understand as a set of negative emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, irritability, disorientation due to separation from family and leaving their homeland (Bryant, Nickerson, Morina & Liddell, 2023), further reinforced by the developmental stage that adolescents undergo during their transition into adulthood. In terms of data analysis, I will undertake a systemic analysis of the organization of institutional and non-governmental assistance in both countries. Their scope of assistance (bottom-up, short-term, long-term) and the obstacles associated with them towards adolescents. The methodology will include a systemic analysis of the two systems of organizing psychiatric assistance and the challenges associated with their organization. As coordinator of the Multicultural Center in Krakow (2022-2023), with experience of receiving and supporting UA migrants, working with the national mental health consultant for children and adolescents in Poland (2023), and having interviewed Ukrainians NGOs that have undertaken psychological and psychiatric support for this group (2024), so particularly vulnerable even without such dramatic experiences as forced resettlement, I will present the results of my research, where both cultural proximity and the organization of the support system are important for the psychological well-being of young adults.