Luft Toupey, Kellett Peter
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2025 Jul 12. doi: 10.1007/s10903-025-01735-5.
With more immigrants coming to Canada, mental health providers are supporting increasingly diverse clients. The Supporting Successful Transplantation (SST) tool offers a potential solution to explore intersectional aspects of newcomer identities; to identify their diverse challenges, including shared issues like racism and discrimination, as well as their unique strengths, and resources. The SST tool emerged from the findings of a study of immigrants to southern Alberta. Using the universal visual metaphor of a tree planted in new conditions, it seeks to provide an intuitive and collaborative way to identify migrants' strengths and challenges and honour their diverse contexts. In this note from the field, we overview the SST resource and its development and provide suggestions for how various community professionals may utilize it in collaboration with their newcomer clients.
随着越来越多的移民来到加拿大，心理健康服务提供者所服务的客户群体日益多样化。“支持成功移植”（SST）工具为探索新移民身份的交叉层面提供了一种可能的解决方案；以识别他们面临的各种挑战，包括诸如种族主义和歧视等共同问题，以及他们独特的优势和资源。SST工具源自对阿尔伯塔省南部移民的一项研究结果。它采用在新环境中种植树木这一通用的视觉隐喻，旨在提供一种直观且协作的方式来识别移民的优势与挑战，并尊重他们的多元背景。在本实地报告中，我们概述了SST资源及其发展情况，并就各类社区专业人员如何与新移民客户合作使用该资源提供建议。
