The overall purpose of this study was to achieve a contextual understanding of war and displacement stressors and coping mechanisms among urban refugee families from Syria living in Istanbul. ...These findings underlie the need for several practice and policy priorities including: a Increasing the number of children attending Turkish schools and decreasing child labor b Incorporating faith into psycho social and mental health interventions, and c Developing family focused interventions conducted by community based lay providers that draw upon empirical models of family stressors and coping. ...