UN AGENCIES RELEASE NEW GUIDELINES ON MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR TRAUMA AND LOSS

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UN AGENCIES RELEASE NEW GUIDELINES ON MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR TRAUMA
AND LOSSNew York, Aug 6 2013 6:00PMThe United Nations health and
refugee agencies today released new guidelines and clinical protocols
on mental health care for adults and children suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder and bereavement.

The guidelines – released by the World Health Organization (WHO), in
conjunction with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – are
designed to give non-specialized health workers and primary health
care workers enough information to provide 'psychological first aid'
and stress management, and to help people identify and strengthen
positive coping methods and social support.

"The big message from WHO is that these disorders are common, they're
disabling and they are usually untreated and this requires an enormous
amount of action and resources,"
<"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/trauma_mental_health_20130806/en/index.html">said
Mark van Ommeren, a scientist from WHO's Department of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse, noting that many countries have very few
psychologists and psychiatrists to attend every person requiring this
mental care.

"Non-specialized health workers, like primary health care workers, can
provide a lot of the basic care," Mr. van Ommeren told reporters in
Geneva.

"One of the things they can do after trauma is provide something
that's called psychological first aid, which involves listening to
people, asking for their needs and concerns, strengthening their
social supports, and protecting them from further harm, discouraging
them from making rash decisions in a moment when something really bad
happens."

Mr. van Ommeren added that medicines played a "relatively small role,"
noting that benzodiazepines and anti-anxiety drugs which doctors
around the world prescribe to patients to enable them to sleep better
and for anxiety are actually unhelpful. Therefore, "we're making a
recommendation against them."

"One of the messages from these guidelines is that, different from
other areas of mental health, most of the care is psychological," Mr.
van Ommeren underlined.

The new protocol and guidelines are part of WHO's Mental Health Global
Action Programme and have been published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association.Aug 6 2013 6:00PM
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