On June 5-6, Exeter hosted working meetings of an international research team of leading experts on the implementation of the project «Promoting Health, Resilience and Engagement of Children and Adolescents Affected by War».
The main goal of the project is to develop and implement a timely, effective, and sustainable response to mental health care in the context of a psychosocial crisis.
The working meetings took place at the University of Exeter, supported by funding from the British Academy as part of the Horizon Europe Pump Priming collaboration between UK and EU partners. The meeting was initiated by Professor Larysa Zasekina, Professor of the Department of General and Clinical Psychology at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (VNU). Dr. Miriam Koschate-Reis, Co-Director of Research and Impact, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, opened the workshop with a welcoming speech. Dr. Miriam spoke about the main areas of research at the Faculty of Psychology, emphasizing the importance of international research groups.
Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University was represented by Larysa Zasekina, Professor of the Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Serhii Zasekin, Professor of the Department of Applied Linguistics, and Yuliia Rozmyrska, Associate Professor of the Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology.
During the two-day workshop, experts from Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Norway, Lithuania, and Sweden worked on developing a strategy for researching psychosocial and psychotherapeutic support for children and families affected by war. The final version of the SHIELD diagnostic tool was presented by Dr. Synne Øien Stensland, Director of Research at the Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Research (NKVTS). SHIELD is designed to diagnose the mental health and social functioning of children and adolescents, as well as to refer them to the necessary specialists.
