2023-11-15 11:00:04
In a country that has experienced several devastating earthquakes, and where the unpunished assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021, left the field open to a gang war, the population lives in a climate of total insecurity. Added to this violence and disasters is an economic and social crisis and an absence of a State which causes poverty, malnutrition and poor health, aggravated by the massive flight of graduates and caregivers in particular.
The unpunished assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 left the field open for a gang war. Getty Images – Claudiad
How to take care of the mental health of a population who have suffered multiple traumas? How to treat in an emergency? Is there still a place for mental health in a completely destabilized country? How can we provide care when we ourselves are subjected to daily violence?
Ronald JEAN-JACQUES, Psychologist and Professor at the State University of Haiti. Co-author of Haiti, recreating life, from trauma to creative resilient processes published in the Haitian Mental Health Review which he co-directs. Judite WHITE, assistant professor and researcher in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the school of medicineUniversity of Miami. Dr. Blanc is an expert in research into the unique stress responses of minority families, women and children, as well as holistic therapeutic approaches.
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