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Teaching psychiatry and establishing psychosocial services – lessons from Afghanistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

I. Missmahl ,
U. Kluge ,
Z. Bromand  and
A. Heinz
I. Missmahl
Affiliation:
International psychosocial organization (IPSO)
U. Kluge
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – Berlin, Germany
Z. Bromand
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at St Hedwig Hospital, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany
A. Heinz*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – Berlin, Germany
*
*Corresponding Author. E-mail address: andreas.heinz@charite.de (A. Heinz)
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Abstract

We describe the extremely limited psychiatric resources of war-torn countries like Afghanistan. In such countries, we suggest to apply experience from training medical students in industrialized countries to teach a very basic and simplified understanding of psychiatric classifications and core diagnostic symptoms to medical students (who will later serve in various medical disciplines in regional and district hospitals) and to medical staff including nurses and psychosocial counsellors working in health posts and district hospitals. We describe such a brief but clinically relevant list of symptoms and classifications based on experiences with medical student and practitioner training.

Keywords

AfghanistanMental healthTraining of psychosocial counsellors
Type
Research Article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 27 , Issue S2: Migration and Mental Health , June 2012 , pp. S76 - S80
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS

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