ArticleBMC medicine2014
Are school-based mental health interventions for war-affected children effective and harmless?
Article in BMC medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Moving beyond a 'one-size-fits-all' rationale in global mental health: prospects of a precision psychology paradigm.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2021Article
- A Critical Review of Effective Child Mass Trauma Interventions: What We Know and Do Not Know from the Evidence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The Effect of Interventions on Functional Impairment in Youth Exposed to Mass Trauma: a Meta-Analysis.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2020Article
- Effects of trauma-informed approaches in schools: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2019Article
- The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in war-traumatized refugee and internally displaced minors: systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2017Review
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Abstract
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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