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Integrating Mental Health into Post-conflict Rehabilitation

The Case of Sierra Leonean and Liberian `Child Soldiers'

Emilie Medeiros

IROS, 39 Time Square, Colvestone Crescent, London, E8 2LT, emiliemedeiros @hotmail. com]

This report discusses the relationship between mental health care and post-conflict rehabilitation in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Data were collected during the author's involvement in mental health programmes for extremely distressed so called `child soldiers' in both countries, as well as involvement in co-ordinating and supporting professionals in charge of the war-affected population. Analysis suggested that mental health was neglected. However consideration of mental health is crucial to rehabilitation efforts because it facilitates understanding and appropriate responses to the difficulties encountered by both professionals and demobilized youth, and needs to be incorporated into designing policy, training and interventions.

Key Words: child soldiers • mental health • post-conflict rehabilitation • war-affected youth • West Africa-DDRR

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 498-504 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105307076236
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