{"id":228326,"date":"2026-01-05T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:04:09","slug":"services-only-scraping-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-asylum-seekers-mental-health-needs-says-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228326\/","title":{"rendered":"Services \u2018only scraping tip of the iceberg\u2019 of asylum-seekers\u2019 mental health needs, says charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Many international protection applicant have psychological trauma, the charity said. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4707c3d7-f164-46ad-9348-95c5bdec641d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Many international protection applicant have psychological trauma, the charity said. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The mental health needs of asylum-seekers and people awaiting deportation are not being adequately met, with services \u201cscraping the tip of the iceberg\u201d of what is needed, according to a leading charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dr Angela Skuce, the medical director at charity Safetynet Primary Care which provides healthcare to recently arrived asylum-seekers and other vulnerable groups in Dublin, described it as a \u201chuge problem\u201d for her group and for GPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many international protection applicant have psychological trauma, the charity said. Stock image The mental health needs of asylum-seekers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9691,103,397,396,2120,61,1629,60,15552],"class_list":["post-228326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-department-of-justice","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-maeve-mctaggart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}