(Disaster) Public Mental Health

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 217-262

  Jong, Joop De ^a,b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

(Disaster) public mental health evidence of psychotherapy effectiveness; Best evidence, 'specific ingredient' in therapy adding little to nonspecific effects of psychotherapy; Criterion of treatability, susceptibility to treatment important, collaborating with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Public mental health model and LAMICs, principles and limitations; Ratio of involvement, in low and middle income countries (LAMICs) versus high income countries, 10 to 1; Selection criteria, priorities for mental health and psychosocial interventions; Sustainability, good quality interventions integration in local communities and services; Tertiary prevention, family and individual levels reducing anomia, through active rehabilitation; Trauma experts, that limited evidence for pharmacological agents in PTSD; Treatment gap in conflict and disaster areas in LAMICs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880057074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998471.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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