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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Population Research Volume 2012, Article ID 485956, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/485956 Research Article Resilience and Its Association with Depression, Emotional and Behavioural Problems, and Mental Health Service Utilisation among Refugee Adolescents Living in South Australia Tahereh Ziaian,1 Helena de Anstiss,1 Georgia Antoniou,2 Peter Baghurst,2 and Michael Sawyer3 1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, City East Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia 2 Public Health Research Unit, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Children, Youth and Women’s Health Service, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia 3 Research and Evaluation Unit, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Children, Youth and Women’s Health Service, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Tahereh Ziaian, tahereh.ziaian@.au Received 10 December 2011; Revised 14 March 2012; Accepted 15 March 2012 Academic Editor: Cherylynn Bassani Copyright © 2012 Tahereh Ziaian et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. Despite the frequency of traumatic or stressful events experienced by refugee children and adolescents prior to migration and following resettlement, the majority do not experience mental health problems emphasising the critical nature of resilience. While a host of factors deemed to be protective of mental health in young refugees have been identified, there has been little research exploring the role of