Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Caitlin O. Mahoney is Associate Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan State University in St Paul, MN. Amy E. Meade is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and currently holds a joint faculty appointment as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and as Assistant Psychologist at McLean Hospital. Arlan F. Fuller is the Chief Operating Officer of Conflict Dynamics International. He worked for 12 years at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, serving as its executive director for seven years.

• Part I: Linking Concepts of Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity PreventionChapter 1: (Re)Conceptualizing Atrocity Crimes as Public Health CatastrophesChapter 2: Supporting Mental Health in Conflict-Affected Settings: Effectiveness, Innovation, and Contemporary ChallengesChapter 3: Does it Feel like Justice to You? Part II: Supporting Mental and Public Health Prevention Work in Pre-Atrocity, Atrocity, and Post-Atrocity SettingsChapter 4: Over-Policed and Under Protected: Police Violence as a Symptom and Cause of Urban Violence in America’s Black CommunitiesChapter 5: Hatred Against Roma in Times of PandemicChapter 6: A Public Health Practice with an Integrated Psychosocial Approach:Care Workers Serving Victims of Human Rights Violations in EcuadorPart III: Group Identity, Victim Impact, and Community Relationships in Atrocity ContextsChapter 7: Syria after a Decade of Atrocity: Toward a Holistic Healing and Prevention StrategyChapter 8: Considering Intergroup Humiliation as a Risk Factor for Conflict and Violence Relapse and for Post-Conflict Mental Health ProblemsChapter 9: Masculinity and Moral Sonhood among Former Non-State Armed Group (NSAG) Members in Mexico and ColombiaPart IV: Ways Forward Chapter 10: Multidisciplinary Needs and Assets Assessment for Atrocity Prevention: Values, Competencies, and Implications for Education, Training, and CollaborationChapter 11: Adapting a Transdiagnostic Mental Health Approach based on Prescriptive Matching in Post-Genocide Rwanda

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