Ukraine crisis
This page brings you some of the latest perspectives, insights and best practices on the war in Ukraine from around the ECNP community.
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
9 June 2022 — 'Supporting the occupational health of journalists covering war' with Elana Newman, USA by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
26 May 2022 — 'Five principles of mass casualty intervention amidst the reality of war's onslaught' with Stevan Hobfoll, USA by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
The war in Ukraine: psychiatry on the frontline
2 June 2022 — Oleg Chaban, is professor of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy at Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since the outbreak of hostilities, he has been working with displaced persons and with people directly affected by the war. Here he is interviewed by Iryna Frankova, chair of the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
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The war in Ukraine: the experience from Hungary
16 May 2022 — Judit Balazs is professor of psychology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and chair of the ECNP Suicide Network. ECNP press officer Tom Parkhill talked with her about her experience assisting Ukrainian refugees in Hungary.
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Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
12 May 2022 — 'Survivability in Combat Situation' with Erik de Soir, Belgium and Oleh Hukovskyy, Ukraine by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
28 April 2022 — 'Understanding and working with intrusive memories after trauma' with Emily Holmes, Sweden and Sofiia Lahutina, Ukraine by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
Trauma expertise desperately needed
15 April 2022 — Iryna Frankova is the chair of the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network. A professor of psychology in Kyiv, she is currently in the Netherlands.
ECNP press officer Tom Parkhill talked to her about the situation in Ukraine.
Read the interview
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
14 April 2022 — 'Optimization of survival' with Arieh Shalev, Israel and 'War related sexual violence' with Lela Tsiskarishvili, Georgia organised by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
The Ukraine refugee crisis: the view from Poland
4 April 2022 — Tomasz Gondek is ECNP member and works as a psychiatrist in Wrocław, in the south-west of Poland.
In this interview with ECNP Press Officer, Tom Parkhill he tells us about the Ukrainian refugee crisis in his country.
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Putin’s war in Ukraine
25 March 2022 — ECNP President Gitte Moos Knudsen, Denmark on the war in Ukraine.
Read the Message of the President
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
17 March 2022 — 'Psychological first aid to military' with Robert Ursano, USA, David Benedek, USA and Dmytro Assonov, Ukraine organised by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
11 March 2022 — 'Golden hours in practice: lessons from war in Ukraine' with Iryna Frankova, Ukraine organised by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
