The Influence of Syrian War on the Children's Mental Health
Salama, Moussa
2018
Abstract
Since the past six years, children in Syria have been endured and suffered. They have lost their families and friends and watched them die in front of them or buried under their homes. They have seen how their homes, schools, and hospitals destroyed, they have been deprived nourishment, medicine, and health services, and been cloven from their parents and close friends because they run away from the war. Every year the violence increases and breaks the intemationallaw against all ages group especially the children. The psychological losses are tremendous, especially nobody knows exactly when the war ends. Depending on many statistics more than 2 million children were born during the conflict, besides hundreds of thousands of kids who have grown up with it. Nobody can know exactly the effects of war on the psychological health of these children and how they will participate to rebuild their country. Many studies, regarding the impact .of Syrian war on the mental health of Syrian refugee children, have shown tremendous numbers of problems, despite these effect for those children who are still inside the country are still less known and not been researched well. According to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), one in four of children is now at risk of developing mental health disorders (OCHA, 2016). For better understanding this dangerous issue and problem, "Save the Children" organization made a plan to make research on more than 450 children and adults inside seven Syria's states which are Aleppo, Damascus, Dara's, al-Hasakah, Horns, Idlib, and Rif Damascus and on camps around Syria, about how the effect of the war on children's mental health, like fear, stress, cope with problems and many other things. The research was fulfilled and performed between December 2016 and February 2017. This study and research is one of the biggest and most comprehensive that talking about this issue from inside Syria. This research has shown heartbroken stories of children who feared from airstrikes, anxious about the future, and from not be able to attend schools. The research focuses on the reality of lacking mental health and psychosocial support in Syria, especially from the parents and caregivers who are also struggling from the war, which make most children have shown signs of severe emotional and mental disaster. According to the psychiatry, the prolonged exposure to war, stress, and uncertainty will lead children to 'toxic stresses'. These include increasing cases of aggressive or withdrawn behavior, bedwetting, self-harm, suicide attempts. All of these, if left untreated, will lead to a permanent effect on the children's mental health for the whole life. The results provide statistical information that will help to reduce and even eliminate these effects and prevent them for both short and long-term. The most important intervention my study tries to prove is that there are many steps should be taken to overall control of these mental problems, especially ending the war immediately.Subjects
Syrian war children mental health
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