Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey

Dole, Christopher T.

doi:10.1080/01459740.2020.1755284

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“…The second key development is the exponential growth of humanitarian psychiatry that has sought to translate this model of trauma into post-conflict and post-disaster contexts. Trauma programmes are now commonplace in the humanitarian space, ranging from targeted individual clinical interventions to psychosocial programs across entire populations (Dole, 2020). Such programmes have antecedents in colonial psychiatry that sought to downplay colonial violence as the origin of the 'shock' that limited labour productivity and instead saw this trauma as originating in the supposed mental 'frailty' of the colonized (Hunt, 2016).…”

Section: Trauma Multiplicity and Global Mental Healthmentioning

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Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Taylor

Mavinga

Bashiga³

2023

Singap J Trop Geogr

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As international health organizations have increasingly acknowledged the global burden of psychological trauma, global health experts have sought to appraise and organize the treatment of trauma through objective, neutral forms of classification and calculation. Rather than see trauma as a singular thing whose biological, social and psychological formation is bracketed by expert perspectives, this paper focuses on how psychological trauma is enacted-that is, brought into being and sustained-in particular contexts and practices. If trauma can be made and unmade in practices, rather than assumed to be a stable thing, then these practices become a matter of concern rather than fact for geographers. We take as our empirical focus the province of North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where trauma has become a matter of growing local, national and international concern. Working with and beyond the conceptual work of Annemarie Mol, we demonstrate how different 'versions' of trauma uneasily co-exist in the region. Interrogating these versions, we explore the tensions that arise from attempting to explain and summate the incidence of trauma that is not singular or stable but is, instead, emergent and enacted in a variety of practices.

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Section: Trauma Multiplicity and Global Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Taylor

Mavinga

Bashiga³

2023

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…Many studies have been conducted on the intervention methods of the mental health of residents in the aftermath of an earthquake. First, the treatment plans from the medical aspect include not only conventional drug treatments but also psychological therapy ( 12 ). Some interventions based on culture, such as Chinese calligraphic handwriting and acupuncture, have also had positive effects ( 13 , 14 ).…”

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Telemedicine Assessment for the Mental Health of Rural Residents Based on the Safety Degree of Housing in Seismically Active Regions

Yin

Xie

Qin³

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Front. Public Health

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Earthquakes inevitably affect the mental health of local residents. In seismically active regions of Southwest China, local rural residents' dilapidated housing with poor seismic performance aggravates the impacts of earthquakes on their mental health. These residents' mental health is difficult to recognize because of the lack of appropriate assessment methods. In addition, rural residents in the area have a low socioeconomic status and cannot access adequate mental treatment. Thus, telemedicine could be an effective approach to assist mental health practice in such areas. However, the lack of telemedicine assessment factors in these areas makes it difficult to complete the correct triage and prioritization of rural residents' mental health quickly and effectively. To provide a foundation for applying telemedicine to assess the risk of mental health problems that rural residents in seismically active regions experience, this paper studied whether the degree of safety of housing can affect mental health. In this study, nine villages near the epicenter of the 2019 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Changning County, China were randomly selected, and 162 valid questionnaires were completed. SPSS statistical software was used to analyze the collected data. First, the satisfaction of rural residents with the degree of safety of housing significantly affected the K6 score and whether they suffered from mental problems. Second, the mental health of rural residents living in reinforced concrete frame structure housing was obviously superior to that of those living in other types of housing. Next, the most significant factor affecting mental health was the degree of wall cracks. Finally, a new approach was developed to assess and prioritize the mental health of rural residents by using degrees of housing safety and smart technology in seismically active regions. The telemedicine assessment approach is expected to be used in the future for mental health evaluation and the large-scale data scoring of rural residents.

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Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages

Dole

2022

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Unbracketing the multiplicity of trauma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Telemedicine Assessment for the Mental Health of Rural Residents Based on the Safety Degree of Housing in Seismically Active Regions

Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages

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