Reducing psychological distress and depression in humanitarian emergencies: An essential role for nonspecialists

John A Naslund; Eirini Karyotaki

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003625

Reducing psychological distress and depression in humanitarian emergencies: An essential role for nonspecialists

PLoS Med. 2021 Jun 17;18(6):e1003625. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003625. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

John A Naslund¹, Eirini Karyotaki^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
² Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Development Psychology, Section Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

John Naslund and Eirini Karyotaki discuss Mark Jordans and colleagues' accompanying research study on therapy for people with psychological distress in Nepal.

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MeSH terms

Depression* / diagnosis
Depression* / epidemiology
Depression* / therapy
Emergencies
Humans
Nepal
Psychological Distress*
Stress, Psychological / therapy

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.