ArticleHealth and human rights2022
A Call for Social Justice and for a Human Rights Approach with Regard to Mental Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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- Invisible wounds of the Israel-Gaza war in Australia.The Medical journal of Australia · 2024Article
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- The burden of trauma in the life of a refugee.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
This paper examines the process of depoliticization of mental health in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and links it to a critical analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder and the role of international humanitarian aid. It is based on a human rights framework that focuses on the right to health and that is instrumental in connecting human rights violations to demands of social justice. Efforts to weaken justice and reparations are analyzed by looking at the role of mental health professionals and assumptions of psychotherapy as a neutral and nonpolitical sphere. By drawing on models of decoloniality and liberation psychology, we advocate for a shift from a decontextualized and individualistic approach to mental health to acknowledging the structural, social, and political oppression that are the underlying factors for suffering in the oPt. In order to alleviate the social suffering of Palestinians and to prevent their victimization, interventions that acknowledge the political nature of mental health ill-being and promote a human rights approach are needed.
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