Are school-based mental health interventions for war-affected children effective and harmless?

Autor/inn/en	Ertl, Verena; Neuner, Frank
Titel	Are school-based mental health interventions for war-affected children effective and harmless?
Quelle	In: BMC medicine, 12 (2014) 1, 4 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-7015
DOI	10.1186/1741-7015-12-84
Schlagwörter	Psychischer Stress; Trauma (Psy); Schule; Trauma (Med); Krieg; Genesung; Psychische Gesundheit; Therapie; Ergebnis; Intervention
Abstract	In recent years, different approaches to large-scale mental health service provision for children in war-affected, mainly low- and middle-income, countries have been developed. Some school-based programs aiming at both strengthening resilience and reducing symptoms of trauma-related distress have been evaluated. In an article published in BMC Medicine, Tol and colleagues integrate their findings of the efficacy of universal school-based intervention across four countries and do not recommend classroom-based intervention as a treatment of trauma-related symptoms, since no consistent positive effects were found. On the contrary, for some children this type of universal intervention may impair recovery. Since universal school-based programs similar to the one evaluated here are widely implemented, Tol et al.'s results are highly relevant to inform the field of mental health service provision in war-affected countries. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2026/3