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Global Mental Health Inside Story: Haitham Assim Abd Alrazak, Baghdad, Iraq

picGMHISHaithamprofileThis is the 8th story in the Global Mental Health Inside Stories series. In this series I want to collect and spread information/ideas from people active in mental health from all over the world and specially from low resource settings or fragile countries.
I hope this series contributes to more insight in the challenges and wishes from people active in these settings and adds to a more bottom up movement in global mental health.
Haitham Assim Abd Alrazak answered the 10 interview questions follows: Continue reading

WHO releases new guidelines for treating conditions related to stress, trauma and losses

Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse released 2 new guidelines, a news release and an article in the The Journal of the American Medical Association.

In the last couple of years, the WHO had received numerous requests for guidance for mental health care after trauma and loss. These 2 publications are the result of the work of dozens practitioners and organizations in the field, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Continue reading