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Public Health, Mental Health and Human Rights

The Example of North Iraq
Edited By: Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Anna Weigelt, Julia Beckmann, Thomas Wenzel

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This book analyzes a project to build culture-sensitive mental health services in Northern Iraq, a region impacted by war and genocide. Focusing on the Yazidi minority, it reviews the challenges encountered and solutions developed, providing guidelines for similar projects.

This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of a pilot project to build competent, sustainable and culture sensitive public mental health services in a…
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This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of a pilot project to build competent, sustainable and culture sensitive public mental health services in a region suffering from the impact of war, genocide and other forms of extreme violence. The project was implemented with the support of the German government and other supporters in Northern Iraq, where especially members of the Yazidi minority were exposed to multiple genocides. Mental health problems and especially trauma related sequels are a key problem in Iraq and in similar regions, and were therefore addressed by the project. The book reviews the present knowledge, the general and the health care situation in the region, further steps taken, typical challenges encountered and solutions developed in the project. It also implicitly provides guidelines for similar projects.

Prof. Dr Jan Ilhan Kizilhan is a transcultural psychologist, Director of the Institute for Transcultural Health Science at the State University Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Dean of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychotraumatology at the University of Duhok, Iraq and head of the transcultural and psychosomatic department, Mediclin-Clinic Donaueschingen, Germany.

Prof. MD Thomas Wenzel is Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, and Chair of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Scientific Section on Psychological Aspects of Torture and Persecution.

Anna Weigelt completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, and her Master’s in Developmental and Clinical Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She currently works as a psychologist supervisor at the German Clinic for Psychotherapy at Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychotraumatology at the University of Dohuk, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

Julia Beckmann is a psychologist and licensed psychotherapist. Currently, she works as a psychotherapist in her own office in Tübingen, Germany, and is a psychologist supervisor at the German Clinic for Psychotherapy at Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychotraumatology at the University of Dohuk, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

Anna Weigelt, Julia Beckmann, Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Reem Alksiri, Thomas Wenzel

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4911-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4911-7
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-30

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4912-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4912-4
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-30

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HBWS5, HBTZ, MMJT
  • THEMA: NHWR9(1FBQ), NHWL(3MRB), NHTZ, MKMT
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