AMMAN — Latest figures from the Family and
Juvenile Protection Department showed that 31 percent of domestic violence
cases are due to emotional, social, and psychological causes, according to the
director of the department, Col. Firas Al-Rasheed.
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Specialists, meanwhile, stressed the importance of
including mental health in Jordan’s primary
health care services, according to
a report by Al-Ghad News.
Speaking at an event about mental health organized
by the International Medical Corps, Rasheed said that “many serious violence
cases that the administration deals with are linked to psychological factors
such as depression and other psychological disorders, while other causes are
related to social and economic motives.”
He stressed the need to provide mental health care
and psychosocial rehabilitation, pointing to the integrated services offered by
the administration, which include psychological and social support services.
For his part, deputy head of the International
Medical Corps delegation in Jordan, Ahmed Al-Jurn, said that “one out of every
four people had suffered at some stage in his life from a mental disorder,
which means that 2 million people have experienced or will experience some type
of mental disorder or distress.”
“We at the corps follow the protection approach in identifying
the needs of the individual by evaluating methods of assistance, protection
systems, and the quality of services received by the beneficiary,” he said.
He explained that 70 percent of the beneficiaries of
protection programs receive specialized psychological services but added that
not every case that goes through violence needs psychological care, although
many do.
Regarding mental
health services, he said that
despite efforts being made to increase attention to mental health care in
Jordan, only less than 2 percent of the health budgets in Arab countries is
devoted to such cases.
“Despite many attempts to support mental health, the
opportunities to support specialized psychological programs are decreasing,”
Jurn said, contending that it is civil society organizations’ role to help
devise new ways to increase access to specialized psychological services.
He expected that the need for mental health and
psychosocial support to increase in the coming years.
Head of the Ministry of Heath’s Directorate of
People with Disabilities and Mental Health, Malak Al-Auri, said that “mental
health care has been included in primary health services,” pointing to efforts
being made in terms of training and rehabilitating cadres in health centers.
She said that over the past few years, progress has
been made in the field of mental health services, as these services are now
available in 52 clinics across the Kingdom.
The services are also provided at public, private,
and university hospitals, as well as hospitals affiliated with the armed
forces. Medications associated with these treatments are free, she added.
For his part, Director of Family and Protection at
the
Ministry of Social Development Amer Al-Hyassat pointed to the importance of
psychological and social support programs, underlining the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic on children.
He said that there are 20 care institutions
operating under the Social Development Ministry, of which four are governmental
and 16 are affiliated with the voluntary sector.
He said that specialists provide psychological and social
support services in the home, while the most difficult cases are referred to
competent authorities.
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