Humanitarian Aid Workers’ Mental Health and Duty of Care

Set in challenging and complex environments, there has been growing concern about the mental health consequences of aid work. Along with existing difficulties in reducing well-known occupational risks such as exposure to trauma, there is a lack of awareness of psychosocial risks in the humanitarian...

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Autor principal: Jachens, Liza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PsychOpen 2019
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680151
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v15i4.2221
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spelling pubmed-79092032021-03-04 Humanitarian Aid Workers’ Mental Health and Duty of Care Jachens, Liza Eur J Psychol Editorial Set in challenging and complex environments, there has been growing concern about the mental health consequences of aid work. Along with existing difficulties in reducing well-known occupational risks such as exposure to trauma, there is a lack of awareness of psychosocial risks in the humanitarian sector. This paper is a discussion, drawing on occupational health perspectives, on ways to reflect on mental health policies, research and interventions in this sector. PsychOpen 2019-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7909203/ /pubmed/33680151 http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v15i4.2221 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909203/
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