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Mental vaccines: can resilience and adaptation of vulnerable individuals and populations be enhanced before disasters and crises?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

Uriel Halbreich Open the ORCID record for Uriel Halbreich in new tab/window[Opens in a new window]
Uriel Halbreich
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MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Bio-Behavioral Research at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY-AB), USA. He is the Founding Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Interdisciplinary Collaboration. He was the Founding President of the International Association of Women's Mental Health and is a past President of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology.
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Summary

The worldwide stress that is a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates the need for mental preventive actions. Such ‘mental vaccines’ should be interdisciplinary and culturally sensitive. They should enhance resilience and adaptation of communities as well as vulnerable individuals.

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Stress resilience adaptation mental disorders vaccines
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Clinical Reflection
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BJPsych Advances , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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An earlier version of these ideas was presented at the World Federation for Mental Health–World Psychiatric Association (WFMH–WPA) International Congress on Crises and Disasters: Psychosocial Consequences, 6–9 March 2013, Athens, Greece.

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