3.1 Factors Impacting Asylum Seeker Mental Health & Wellbeing

Upon arrival in your new country, one of the first challenges is access to information as you need to be able to know what to do and how. Inevitably these challenging external factors can negatively affect the mental health of these people who have already experienced much pain and trauma.

In the following pages we will review some of the factors that you will need to be aware of to support an asylum seeker in the UK.