Are school-based mental health interventions for war-affected children effective and harmless?

BMC Medicine

Frank Neuner¹  Verena Ertl¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University, Post BOX: 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany

关键词: Effectiveness;    Trial;    Prevention;    Treatment;    Depression;    PTSD;    War;    Children;    Trauma;   

Others  :  854878
DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7015-12-84

 received in 2014-04-28, accepted in 2014-04-28,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, different approaches to large-scale mental health service provision for children in war-affected, mainly low- and middle-income, countries have been developed. Some school-based programs aiming at both strengthening resilience and reducing symptoms of trauma-related distress have been evaluated. In an article published in BMC Medicine, Tol and colleagues integrate their findings of the efficacy of universal school-based intervention across four countries and do not recommend classroom-based intervention as a treatment of trauma-related symptoms, since no consistent positive effects were found. On the contrary, for some children this type of universal intervention may impair recovery. Since universal school-based programs similar to the one evaluated here are widely implemented, Tol et al.’s results are highly relevant to inform the field of mental health service provision in war-affected countries.

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【 授权许可】

   
2014 Ertl and Neuner; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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