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Globalization as Re‐traumatization: Rebuilding Haiti from the Spirit Up
Author(s) -
Diaz Jeannette,
Schneider Renate,
Mantal Pwogwam Santé
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01760.x
Subject(s) - globalization , mental health , poverty , context (archaeology) , global mental health , economic growth , focus group , political science , psychology , sociology , psychiatry , geography , economics , law , archaeology , anthropology
This article provides a case study of Haiti within the context of both its distant history of colonialism and its recent history of globalization. We then provide a discussion that highlights the relationship between globalization, poverty, and mental health in low and middle‐income countries and describe the development of Pwogwam Santé Mantal, a community‐based mental health program in Jeremie, Haiti. We present results of focus groups and interviews that provide a sense of how mental health issues are discussed in this region and present results from a pilot survey which corroborate focus group and interview data. We describe a mental health seminar that took place in July of 2010 and present outcome evaluation data for the seminar. We end with a discussion of how these data and this mental health program address the problematic relationship between globalization and mental health and highlight implications for future research and program/policy development.