Holloway Julie, Everly George S
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
Int J Emerg Ment Health. 2010 Summer;12(3):193-8.
Mental health services for veterans of humanitarian assistance (HA) missions is a critical and growing need within the United States military. The mental health impacts of such missions are both similar to and different from those experienced on combat missions, and may have an equally significant impact on the health and wellness of our troops. As the US military increasingly deploys humanitarian teams on both peacetime and contingency missions, this need can be expected to grow and must be addressed with more research and more attention to prevention, screening, and treatment. In this paper we will present a brief summary of the possible mental health effects of military HA missions, and propose remedies to address the adverse conditions that may arise in the pre-deployment, deployment, and redeployment settings.
为参与人道主义援助（HA）任务的退伍军人提供心理健康服务，在美国军队中是一项至关重要且需求不断增长的工作。此类任务对心理健康的影响，既与作战任务有相似之处，也有不同之处，并且可能对我们部队的健康与福祉产生同样重大的影响。随着美军越来越多地在和平时期及应急任务中部署人道主义团队，可以预计这一需求将会增加，必须通过更多的研究以及对预防、筛查和治疗给予更多关注来加以解决。在本文中，我们将简要概述军事HA任务可能对心理健康产生的影响，并提出应对措施，以解决在部署前、部署期间和重新部署阶段可能出现的不利状况。
