Since the start of the country’s Civil War in 2011, Syria has beome the source of the largest number of forced migrants since World War II. With an internal displacement of approximately 6.2 million residents forced to flee their homes and an estimated 6.7 million civilians who have fled the country following the Arab Spring uprisings, the Syrian refugee crisis continues to escalate almost a decade after its start. The experiences of these forced migrants upon resettlement has often included trauma-induced breakdowns in resilience, defined as a drop in social support and acceptance, difficulty attaining successful acculturation, negative education outcomes, inability to maintain religious adherence, avoidance of family and friends, and a loss of hope. Mental health issues such as increased incidence of depression, anxiety, PTSD, panic disorders, OCD behaviors along with socio-emotional difficulties are also found to be a common, yet often unaddressed and untreated, occurrence among many members of displaced families and forced migrants. This social problem of declining resilience and increased mental health struggles among resettled Syrian refugees leads to difficulty in cultural integration post-resettlement. Although refugee integration challenges have been studied from the psychological or social standpoint of resilience theory, due to a collectivist worldview, traditional modes of mental health treatment and family rebuilidng are often not effective in reaching this vulnerable population. Research that explores refugee integration in terms of cultural value dimensions as prevalently expressed in Syrian culture, with emphasis on collectivism and uncertainty avoidance, can provide a new avenue of overcoming the stigmatization of mental health treatment. Moving away from the traditional Western model of self-actualization in therapeutic paradigms and towards a more culturally competent model of self-transcendence can provide avenues of overcoming perceived cultural stigmatization of mental health disabilities and the silence surrounding breakdowns in emotional resilience. Through a linguistic content analysis of transcribed oral histories collected by Duke University, a qualitative analysis using Hofstede’s Value Dimensions will be used to understand the documented social problem of declining emotional resilience due to mental health stigmatization among resettled Syrian refugees.