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

Uriel Halbreich

doi:10.1192/bja.2021.14

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

Uriel Halbreich

Department of Psychiatry

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	201-203
Number of pages	3
Journal	BJPsych Advances
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2021.14
State	Published - May 2021

Keywords

adaptation
mental disorders
resilience
Stress
vaccines

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