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Mental health and psychosocial support for children in areas of armed conflict: call for a systems approach

Part of: Children's Mental Health Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. J. D. Jordans  and
W. A. Tol
M. J. D. Jordans
Affiliation:
Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK, email mark.jordans@kcl.ac.uk
W. A. Tol
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
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Abstract

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This paper focuses on the question of whether separate attention to children who have faced specific conflict-related events is justified, or whether the scarce resources for mental health should be spent on the development of services for children more broadly in low- and middle-income countries (where most contemporary armed conflicts are taking place). It is argued that a systems approach to mental health and psychosocial support for children is warranted.

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BJPsych International , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , August 2015 , pp. 72 - 75
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2015

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