CRC. The inclusion of this provision in the direct- ive, with its specific reference to appropriate mental health care and qualified counselling, is praiseworthy. However, it does not accurately reflect the terms of Article 39 CRC. Notably the references to ‘all appropriate measures’ and to ‘an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child’ are omitted. This is not a question of squabbling over wording; these omissions are significant. The holistic approach advanced in Article 39 CRC is essential in the context of traumatized child asylum seekers where it is well established that the medical or ‘sickness’ model of rehabilitation is a limited one.38 First, the medical model pathologises responses to trauma rather than 37 Emphasis added.
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