Citation

Legha RK, Solages M. Child Adolesc. Psychiatr. Clin. N. Am. 2015; 24(4): 731-749.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20010, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.chc.2015.06.004

PMID

26346386

Abstract

This article presents an overview of child and adolescent mental health in Haiti, emphasizing the role of structural violence and the factors shaping child protection. The 2010 Haiti earthquake is discussed as an acute on chronic event that highlighted the lack of pre-existing formal biomedical mental health services and worsened the impact of structural violence. Considerations for long-term, sustainable, culturally relevant child and adolescent mental health care in Haiti are also provided.

Language: en