Doctoral Dissertation Research: Scientific Evidence concerning Humanitarian Interventions in Israeli Conflict Zones

前言近年来，冲突和灾区人民的心理健康问题日益受到国际人道主义援助组织的关注。然而，与食品或医疗援助相比，心理健康干预措施提出了独特的设计、协调和验证挑战。在关于什么属于精神健康领域的持续辩论中，援助组织正在采用不同的干预措施，从个人治疗到职业培训，再到人权倡导。这种多样性部分源于实地条件的不同，部分源于对适当的目标和方法的分歧。为了加强监督和沟通，几个多国人道主义财团和研究小组努力开发技术，以科学评估冲突和灾区心理健康干预措施的效果。但考虑到不同人群的不同需求，以及对适当的成功衡量标准缺乏共识，产生令人信服的评估带来了巨大的挑战。智力价值本项目调查人道主义组织和研究人员在尝试实施和评估心理健康干预措施时遇到的挑战。它审查了他们用来克服这些挑战的方法，以及他们评估其评估方法有效性的方式。为了解决这些问题，研究人员将采访参与人道主义心理健康干预的心理健康从业者、管理者和研究人员，并在以色列和约旦河西岸活动的人道主义组织中进行参与者观察。该项目将记录在冲突地区设计、提供和评估心理健康和心理干预的挑战，阐明人道主义领域知识转让的复杂性。更广泛的影响由于人道主义行为者每天使用功效和监督的概念来计划和实施心理健康干预，并证明为其提供资金是合理的，因此这项分析可能会引起各种研究人员、非政府组织和政策分析师的兴趣。

IntroductionIn recent years, the mental health of people in conflict and disaster zones has attracted increasing attention among international humanitarian aid organizations. However, as compared with food or medical aid, mental health interventions pose unique design, coordination, and validation challenges. Amid ongoing debate over what falls within the domain of mental health, aid organizations are employing diverse interventions, ranging from individual therapy, to vocational training, to human rights advocacy. This diversity stems in part from variation in conditions on the ground and in part from disagreement about appropriate goals and methods. To improve oversight and communication, several multinational humanitarian consortia and research groups have worked to develop techniques for scientifically assessing the efficacy of mental health interventions in conflict and disaster zones. But given the varying needs of different populations and a lack of consensus about appropriate measures of success, producing convincing assessments poses significant challenges.Intellectual MeritThis project examines the challenges that humanitarian organizations and researchers encounter when trying to implement and assess mental health interventions. It examines the methods that they employ to overcome these challenges, and the manner in which they evaluate the effectiveness of their assessment methods. To address these issues questions, the researcher will interview mental health practitioners, administrators, and researchers involved in humanitarian mental health interventions and conduct participant observation in humanitarian organizations that operate in Israel and the West Bank. The project will document the challenges of designing, delivering, and assessing mental health and psychological interventions in conflict zones, illuminating the complexities of knowledge transfer in the humanitarian sphere. Broader ImpactsBecause humanitarian actors use concepts of efficacy and oversight on a daily basis to plan and implement mental health interventions and justify funding for them, the analysis is likely to interest a variety of researchers, NGOs, and policy analysts.