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| Year : 2008 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 248-251 |
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IASC Guidelines - generally welcome, but...
William Yule
Emeritus Professor of Applied Child Psychology at King’s College London and chair of the Foundation for Children and War (http://www.childrenandwar.org)
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 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
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The author lauds the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings as a remarkable achievement, but in his view they have not sufficiently used scientific evidence. The author also deplores that the concepts of ‘trauma’ and ‘traumatic stress’ remain underplayed and makes a case for early psychological group interventions, as well as for more specific attention to childhood mental disorders in general.
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