King's College London Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2024 Nov;70(7):1234-1238. doi: 10.1177/00207640241261208. Epub 2024 Jul 24.
Mental Health support to military operations is well established as an integral part of military medicine. Unfortunately, Commanders often receive little or no training in how best to use their mental health assets or what their capabilities are. Conversely, members of a Field Mental Health Team frequently have no operational experience and try to merely translate their civilian practice onto the battlefield.
This article describes what mental health professional can, and should do on military deployments and calls for greater training and awareness of both Mental Health professionals and Operational Commanders to foster mutual understanding and use the Field Mental Health Team to best effect.
The paper drawson the experience of working in a Field Mental Health Team on six operational deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military mental health professionals work mostly in peacetime and this work ill prepares them for the very different type of work required of them on operations.
More training is required to prepare both practitioners and commanders for the mental health issues that confront them on operational deployments.
为军事行动提供心理健康支持已被确立为军事医学的一个组成部分。不幸的是,指挥官通常很少接受或根本不接受如何最好地利用其心理健康资源或了解其能力的培训。相反,野战心理健康小组的成员通常没有作战经验,并且试图将他们的平民实践直接应用于战场。
本文描述了心理健康专业人员在军事部署中可以并且应该做什么,并呼吁对心理健康专业人员和作战指挥官进行更多的培训和提高认识,以促进相互理解并最大限度地发挥野战心理健康小组的作用。
本文基于在伊拉克和阿富汗的六次作战部署中野战心理健康小组的工作经验。
军事心理健康专业人员主要在和平时期工作,而这项工作使他们很难适应行动中所需的完全不同类型的工作。
需要进行更多的培训,使从业者和指挥官都为在行动部署中面临的心理健康问题做好准备。