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| Year : 2008 | Volume
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What is minimum response: reflections on diverse opinions regarding the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings1
Mark van Ommeren1, Mike Wessells2
1 Scientist at the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and co-chairof the IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (2008)
2 Senior Child Protection Advisor at Christian Children’s Fund, a member of the Inter Action consortium. He is also Professor of Clinical Population ' Family at Columbia University and Professor of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College. The two authors co-chaired, on behalf of Inter Action and WHO, the IASC Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (2005–2007)
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 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
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The authors respond to commentaries in this journal about the 2007 IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Overall, influential commentators coming from opposite academic traditions and knowledge bases appear to welcome these guidelines and value them. In this response, the authors focus on a few critical comments, which may be explained by divergent understandings about what is meant by minimum response and what priority activities may be part of that response.
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