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Willem van de Put
Researcher at Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Publications - 15
Citations - 1180
Willem van de Put is an academic researcher from Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 15 publications receiving 1096 citations. Previous affiliations of Willem van de Put include Royal University of Phnom Penh & Health Net.
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Lifetime events and posttraumatic stress disorder in 4 postconflict settings.
Joop T. V. M. de Jong,Ivan H. Komproe,Mark van Ommeren,Mustafa El Masri,Mesfin Araya,Noureddine Khaled,Willem van de Put,Daya Somasundaram +7 more
TL;DR: A wide range of rates of symptoms of PTSD were found among 4 low-income populations who have experienced war, conflict, or mass violence and the importance of contextual differences in the study of traumatic stress and human rights violations is indicated.
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Improving access to mental health care and psychosocial support within a fragile context: a case study from Afghanistan.
Peter Ventevogel,Willem van de Put,Hafizullah Faiz,Bibiane van Mierlo,Majeed Siddiqi,Ivan H. Komproe +5 more
TL;DR: A case study of the efforts to integrate brief, practice-oriented mental health training into the Afghanistan health care system at a time when the system was being rebuilt from scratch is provided.
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Bringing order out of chaos: A culturally competent approach to managing the problems of refugees and victims of organized violence
TL;DR: The 9-step model that TPO has developed as a blueprint for each new intervention is described, and preliminary evaluative comments on the model's performance are provided.
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Starting mental health services in Cambodia.
Daya Somasundaram,Daya Somasundaram,Willem van de Put,Maurice Eisenbruch,Joop T. V. M. de Jong +4 more
TL;DR: The efficacy of introducing low-cost, basic mental health care is shown, and related to the need to find solutions for prevailing problems on the psychosocial level, and the effort to maintain a culturally informed approach is described.
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Management of trauma in special populations after a disaster.
TL;DR: Planning the delivery of mental health services is critical and includes hazard mapping to identify vulnerable geographic and social areas, screening instruments to identify at-risk populations, and education of community leaders and health care workers.