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Psychological consequences of war and other conflicts

Guest Editors:
Dominic Murphy, PhD, King's College London, United Kingdom
Victoria Williamson, PhD, King's College London, United Kingdom
 

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, in situations of war or other armed conflicts, one in five people will experience depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychosomatic problems. In light of ongoing and recent conflicts, BMC Psychology welcomed submissions to this Collection on the various aspects of mental health and armed conflicts.

New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing and SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Dominic Murphy: King's College London & Combat Stress, United Kingdom

Professor Dominic Murphy is an academic clinical psychologist who works within the field of PTSD and military mental health. In 2013, he established and now runs a research department at Combat Stress, which is co-located with King’s College London.

Professor Murphy also serves as the Clinical Director of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research department at King’s College London, President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS), Director (Treasurer) of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ETSSS), Trustee and Director of Research at The Forces in Mind Trust, member of the Five Eyes International Mental Health Research and Innovation Consortium (MHRIC), and a member of the scientific advisory board for Chronic Pain Centre for Canadian veterans. Professor Murphy is a widely published scholar within the area of PTSD and military mental health. 

Victoria Williamson: King's College London, United Kingdom

Dr Victoria Williamson is a Researcher at King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London, and the University of Exeter. Her research interests are in psycho-traumatology—including in the context of combat trauma, human trafficking, and moral injury—and co-designing accessible mental health interventions.

About the Collection

BMC Psychology welcomed submissions for the Psychological consequences of war and other conflicts Collection.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, in situations of war or other armed conflicts, one in five people will experience depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychosomatic problems. In light of ongoing and recent conflicts, BMC Psychology announced this Collection examining the various aspects of mental health and armed conflicts.

Topics of interest included, but were not limited to:

  • Mental health of civilians within the targeted homeland
  • Health of soldiers on all sides of the conflict
  • Consumption of war-related information through the internet, social media, television, and radio
  • The longer-term impacts as individuals leave the military and become veterans

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing and SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

Image credit: Motortion / Getty Images / iStock

  1. Veteran residents in Northern Ireland (NI) are an under-researched population. Little is known about their experiences of trauma and mental health management. The overall mental well-being of veterans living i...

    Authors: Catherine Hitch, Paul Toner, Hannah Champion and Cherie Armour
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:479
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Problematic anger, characterized by excessive frequency, intensity, and duration of anger which causes substantial emotional distress and functional interference, poses a marked challenge in military populatio...

    Authors: Andreas Espetvedt Nordstrand, Frederick Anyan, Hans Jakob Bøe, Odin Hjemdal, Laura Katherine Noll, Jon Gerhard Reichelt, David Forbes and Amy B. Adler
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:451
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have experienced numerous personal losses across various aspects, impacting their quality of life. This study aimed to explore and analyze the losses experienced by p...

    Authors: Marta Terrón-Pérez, Sara Cortes-Amador and Juan Bautista Portolés-Simeó
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:349
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Psychological consequences of war and other conflicts" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.