Born in Haiti: A maternity hospital in the context of a humanitarian crisis
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Sutter, Christina
Abstract / Description
This is a report on the experience of implementing a mental health program in a maternity hospital and three mobile clinics in the city of Port-au-Prince. We started by listening to the difficulties faced by the national teams in their daily routines at the hospital and what they expected of a mental health program. The program was planned in a way to contemplate the perceived needs of the hospital teams as well as those of the target population, pre and post-natal women, within a systemic perspective. Thus the program covered the following aspects: training with the hospital team on communication and helping relationships, a series of speeches on mental health at the hospital, psychological treatment of the patients through counseling sessions, involvement of partners and families being assisted, support groups for peri-natal mourning, men's groups with the future fathers, psychoeducation in the mobile clinics, a survey of the social network in the city, psycho-social assistance and the introduction of relaxation strategies at the hospital. We concluded that in the context of a humanitarian crisis, as in the case of Haiti, a mental health program should contemplate different levels of need and take into consideration that health care professionals are also subject to the context of social stress. At the same time, the involvement of hospital teams in the process is fundamental to the success of the program.
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maternity hospital Haiti humanitarian crisis mental health program systemic perspectivePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-11-15
Journal title
Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
Volume
10
Issue
supp1
Page numbers
47–60
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Sutter, C. (2016). Born in Haiti: A maternity hospital in the context of a humanitarian crisis. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 10(supp1), 47–60. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10isupp1.243
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Sutter, Christina
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Date of first publication2016-11-15
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Abstract / DescriptionThis is a report on the experience of implementing a mental health program in a maternity hospital and three mobile clinics in the city of Port-au-Prince. We started by listening to the difficulties faced by the national teams in their daily routines at the hospital and what they expected of a mental health program. The program was planned in a way to contemplate the perceived needs of the hospital teams as well as those of the target population, pre and post-natal women, within a systemic perspective. Thus the program covered the following aspects: training with the hospital team on communication and helping relationships, a series of speeches on mental health at the hospital, psychological treatment of the patients through counseling sessions, involvement of partners and families being assisted, support groups for peri-natal mourning, men's groups with the future fathers, psychoeducation in the mobile clinics, a survey of the social network in the city, psycho-social assistance and the introduction of relaxation strategies at the hospital. We concluded that in the context of a humanitarian crisis, as in the case of Haiti, a mental health program should contemplate different levels of need and take into consideration that health care professionals are also subject to the context of social stress. At the same time, the involvement of hospital teams in the process is fundamental to the success of the program.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationSutter, C. (2016). Born in Haiti: A maternity hospital in the context of a humanitarian crisis. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 10(supp1), 47–60. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10isupp1.243en_US
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ISSN1981-6472
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1754
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2120
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10isupp1.243
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Keyword(s)maternity hospitalen_US
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Keyword(s)Haitien_US
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Keyword(s)humanitarian crisisen_US
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Keyword(s)mental health programen_US
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Keyword(s)systemic perspectiveen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleBorn in Haiti: A maternity hospital in the context of a humanitarian crisisen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issuesupp1
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Journal titleInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
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Page numbers47–60
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Volume10
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