From exception to the norm: how mental health interventions have become part and parcel of the humanitarian response

摘要

Humanitarian psychiatry is the provision of services for mental health and psychosocial support in a humanitarian context – that is, to populations exposed to collective violence, forced displacement or natural disasters. Unfortunately, humanitarian needs have grown: nearly 80 million are forcibly displaced in the world today, that is one in a hundred people, with diminishing numbers returning home. These figures do not include those with humanitarian needs who are not displaced, but who are also in danger, as for example in Yemen at this time.