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.
Refugees and mental health
26 August 2022 — Peter Ventevogel is the UNHCR’s Senior Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer. UNHCR is working with authorities, UN agencies, displaced community groups and partners to provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance to displaced Ukrainians. Here he talks to ECNP press officer Tom Parkhill.
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Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
21 July 2022 — 'Psychiatric care during ongoing operations' with Rakesh Jetly, Canada, and Orest Suvalo, Ukraine, by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
Ukrainian soldiers and civilians suffer from serious war trauma
18 July 2022 — In this video, ECNP Traumatic Stress Network chair Iryna Frankova is interviewed on Deutsche Welle in this special piece on war trauma.
Chatbot for trauma
12 July 2022 — Sofiia Lahutina is a Ukrainian psychiatrist. She has been involved in the development of the ‘Friend’ chatbot, supported by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network. It’s a self-care conversational tool created to improve the mental health of people who have experienced trauma. Here she talks to ECNP press officer Tom Parkhill.
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Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
7 July 2022 — 'Leadership behaviors in war and disasters' with Joshua Morganstein, USA, and Natalia Roman, Ukraine, by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
Hot Topic Virtual Meetings
23 June 2022 — 'Supporting children during war' with Dennis Ougrin, United Kingdom, and Maryna Gumeniuk, Ukraine, by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
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9 June 2022 — 'Supporting the occupational health of journalists covering war' with Elana Newman, USA, by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
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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.
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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.
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11 March 2022 — 'Golden hours in practice: lessons from war in Ukraine' with Iryna Frankova, Ukraine, organised by the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network.
