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Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19

There is a worldwide need for mental health interventions to address the mental health needs of children under 12 who are returning to school in the post-COVID-19 environment. The basic characteristics of child-focused, post-crisis interventions are currently unknown, but they are essential for deve...

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Autores principales: Gómez, Gabriela, Basagoitia, Armando, Burrone, María Soledad, Rivas, Marlene, Solís-Soto, María Teresa, Dy Juanco, Sean, Alley, Hugh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8524184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34675824
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.713407
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author Gómez, Gabriela
Basagoitia, Armando
Burrone, María Soledad
Rivas, Marlene
Solís-Soto, María Teresa
Dy Juanco, Sean
Alley, Hugh
author_facet Gómez, Gabriela
Basagoitia, Armando
Burrone, María Soledad
Rivas, Marlene
Solís-Soto, María Teresa
Dy Juanco, Sean
Alley, Hugh
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description There is a worldwide need for mental health interventions to address the mental health needs of children under 12 who are returning to school in the post-COVID-19 environment. The basic characteristics of child-focused, post-crisis interventions are currently unknown, but they are essential for developing high-quality, expedient RTC programs. We conducted a rapid systematic review, via established PICO methodology, to appraise the characteristics of such interventions. We queried databases (PubMed, PsycInfo, ERIC) for English and Spanish publications describing mental health interventions to reduce mental health symptoms and sequelae among children exposed to disasters and other community crises. We described the following characteristics: type of intervention, length, number of sessions, number of staff delivering the intervention, and other characteristics. A total of 18 original articles met the inclusion criteria: 11 correspond to a controlled trial type of study and 15 addressed PTSD after disaster or crisis situations. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was the most common intervention type, school-based/related interventions were the most common method, and five articles described an important role of teachers as mediators of therapy.
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spelling pubmed-85241842021-10-20 Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19 Gómez, Gabriela Basagoitia, Armando Burrone, María Soledad Rivas, Marlene Solís-Soto, María Teresa Dy Juanco, Sean Alley, Hugh Front Psychiatry Psychiatry There is a worldwide need for mental health interventions to address the mental health needs of children under 12 who are returning to school in the post-COVID-19 environment. The basic characteristics of child-focused, post-crisis interventions are currently unknown, but they are essential for developing high-quality, expedient RTC programs. We conducted a rapid systematic review, via established PICO methodology, to appraise the characteristics of such interventions. We queried databases (PubMed, PsycInfo, ERIC) for English and Spanish publications describing mental health interventions to reduce mental health symptoms and sequelae among children exposed to disasters and other community crises. We described the following characteristics: type of intervention, length, number of sessions, number of staff delivering the intervention, and other characteristics. A total of 18 original articles met the inclusion criteria: 11 correspond to a controlled trial type of study and 15 addressed PTSD after disaster or crisis situations. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was the most common intervention type, school-based/related interventions were the most common method, and five articles described an important role of teachers as mediators of therapy. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8524184/ /pubmed/34675824 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.713407 Text en Copyright © 2021 Gómez, Basagoitia, Burrone, Rivas, Solís-Soto, Dy Juanco and Alley. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Gómez, Gabriela
Basagoitia, Armando
Burrone, María Soledad
Rivas, Marlene
Solís-Soto, María Teresa
Dy Juanco, Sean
Alley, Hugh
Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19
title Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19
title_full Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19
title_fullStr Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19
title_short Child-Focused Mental Health Interventions for Disasters Recovery: A Rapid Review of Experiences to Inform Return-to-School Strategies After COVID-19
title_sort child-focused mental health interventions for disasters recovery: a rapid review of experiences to inform return-to-school strategies after covid-19
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8524184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34675824
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.713407
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