El fortalecimiento de los sistemas de atención de salud mental para refugiados sirios en Europa y Oriente Medio: La integración de intervenciones psicológicas escalables en 8 países

Marit Sijbrandij; Ceren Acarturk; Martha Bird; Richard A. Bryant; Sebastian Burchert; Kenneth Carswell; Joop de Jong; Cecilie Dinesen; Katie S. Dawson; Rabih El Chammay; Linde van Ittersum; Mark Jordans; Christine Knaevelsrud; David McDaid; Kenneth Miller; Naser Morina; A. La Park; Bayard Roberts; Yvette van Son; Egbert Sondorp; Monique C. Pfaltz; Leontien Ruttenberg; Matthis Schick; Ulrich Schnyder; Mark van Ommeren; Peter Ventevogel; Inka Weissbecker; Erica Weitz; Nana Wiedemann; Claire Whitney; Pim Cuijpers

doi:10.1080/20008198.2017.1388102

El fortalecimiento de los sistemas de atención de salud mental para refugiados sirios en Europa y Oriente Medio: La integración de intervenciones psicológicas escalables en 8 países

Translated title of the contribution: Strengthening mental health care systems for Syrian refugees in Europe and the Middle East: integrating scalable psychological interventions in eight countries

Marit Sijbrandij^*, Ceren Acarturk, Martha Bird, Richard A. Bryant, Sebastian Burchert, Kenneth Carswell, Joop de Jong, Cecilie Dinesen, Katie S. Dawson, Rabih El Chammay, Linde van Ittersum, Mark Jordans, Christine Knaevelsrud, David McDaid, Kenneth Miller, Naser Morina, A. La Park, Bayard Roberts, Yvette van Son, Egbert SondorpMonique C. Pfaltz, Leontien Ruttenberg, Matthis Schick, Ulrich Schnyder, Mark van Ommeren, Peter Ventevogel, Inka Weissbecker, Erica Weitz, Nana Wiedemann, Claire Whitney, Pim Cuijpers

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The crisis in Syria has resulted in vast numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Syria’s neighbouring countries as well as in Europe. Refugees are at considerable risk of developing common mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most refugees do not have access to mental health services for these problems because of multiple barriers in national and refugee specific health systems, including limited availability of mental health professionals. To counter some of challenges arising from limited mental health system capacity the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a range of scalable psychological interventions aimed at reducing psychological distress and improving functioning in people living in communities affected by adversity. These interventions, including Problem Management Plus (PM+) and its variants, are intended to be delivered through individual or group face-to-face or smartphone formats by lay, non-professional people who have not received specialized mental health training, We provide an evidence-based rationale for the use of the scalable PM+ oriented programmes being adapted for Syrian refugees and provide information on the newly launched STRENGTHS programme for adapting, testing and scaling up of PM+ in various modalities in both neighbouring and European countries hosting Syrian refugees.

Translated title of the contribution	Strengthening mental health care systems for Syrian refugees in Europe and the Middle East: integrating scalable psychological interventions in eight countries
Original language	Spanish
Article number	1388102
Journal	European journal of psychotraumatology
Volume	8
Issue number	sup2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1388102
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
common mental disorders
e-mental health interventions
implementation
problem solving treatment (PST)
psychological interventions
Refugees
Syria
task-shifting

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Sijbrandij, M., Acarturk, C., Bird, M., Bryant, R. A., Burchert, S., Carswell, K., de Jong, J., Dinesen, C., Dawson, K. S., El Chammay, R., van Ittersum, L., Jordans, M., Knaevelsrud, C., McDaid, D., Miller, K., Morina, N., Park, A. L., Roberts, B., van Son, Y., ... Cuijpers, P. (2017). El fortalecimiento de los sistemas de atención de salud mental para refugiados sirios en Europa y Oriente Medio: La integración de intervenciones psicológicas escalables en 8 países. European journal of psychotraumatology, 8(sup2), Article 1388102. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1388102

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El fortalecimiento de los sistemas de atención de salud mental para refugiados sirios en Europa y Oriente Medio: La integración de intervenciones psicológicas escalables en 8 países. / Sijbrandij, Marit; Acarturk, Ceren; Bird, Martha et al.
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El fortalecimiento de los sistemas de atención de salud mental para refugiados sirios en Europa y Oriente Medio: La integración de intervenciones psicológicas escalables en 8 países

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