Most cited CAMH paper #1 of 25: Systematic Review of Evidence and Treatment Approaches: Psychosocial and Mental Health Care for Children in War

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Posted on 7 February 2020

Tags: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), War trauma… Show all

Topics: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), War trauma
Interventions: Psychotherapies
Publication Types: Journal article, Systematic review

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To celebrate the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal’s 25th anniversary, we have released the 25 top cited articles of all time*! All papers are freely available online for you to read.

Number 1 of 25 is…

Systematic Review of Evidence and Treatment Approaches: Psychosocial and Mental Health Care for Children in War

Mark J.D. Jordans, Wietse A. Tol, Ivan H. Komproe, Joop V.T.M. De Jong

Key Practitioner Message:

There is a serious lack of rigorous studies evaluating psychosocial care for children affected by war.
Though some treatment evaluation studies are promising, effect sizes of controlled studies are moderate and several studies have methodological flaws.
Despite the PTSD bias of evaluation studies, papers describing treatment approaches support a paradigm shift from tertiary to primary care, with the main focus on community‐based approaches.
Most descriptive papers lack a comprehensive presentation of treatment modalities and either report single interventions or are limited to position statements.

* as of December 2019