Mental Health of Refugees and Forcibly Displaced People from Ukraine
Friday 1st July 2022, 2 PM (CET – Central European Time) Duration 2 hours
Sponsored by:
World Psychiatric Association
Working Group on Providing mental health care for refugees and migrants and the Section on Transcultural Psychiatry
Webinar Directors:
Prof. Dr. Afzal Javed
Prof. Dr. Meryam Schouler-Ocak
While Europe has not yet come to terms with the pandemic, it is confronted with a new dramatic emergency, a war which has already caused a huge number of civilian victims, mass displacement and even fear about a nuclear war. Once again, thousands of war refugees, forcibly displaced people left their country of origin, the Ukraine, with many thousands more to follow. Neighbouring countries such as Poland have taken in around 3.7 million people in a very short time, which is a great challenge for the mental health care system as well as for the whole society. Our peaceful world suddenly faces war in the middle of Europe. Many of the forcibly displaced people from Ukraine have traumatizing life events, which has a huge impact upon their mental health and wellbeing.
In this webinar, we want to focus on the mental health of refugees and forcibly displaced people.
Programme:
14:00 – 14:10 Introduction (Afzal Javed, President of WPA)
14:10 – 14:30 Being a refugee in a war situation: psychosocial context (Levent Küey, Turkey)
14:30 – 14:50 Mental health of refugees from Ukraine (Meryam Schouler – Ocak, Germany)
14:50 – 15:20 Mental health crisis in Ukraine: lessons learned from the war (Iryna Frankova, Ukraine)
15:20 – 15:40 Long-term impact of the war on the mental health of refugees (Marianne Kastrup, Denmark)
15:40 – 15:50 Closing remarks (Afzal Javed, President of WPA )
15:50 – 16:00 Q&A Session
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This meeting has been supported by an unrestricted educational financial grant, for educational purposes, from Viatris. No influence has been exerted on the Agenda or its materials
