The document discusses policies and strategies to alleviate the mental health impact of socioeconomic crises through prevention. It proposes several questions to guide discussion, including what factors mediate and moderate the relationship between socioeconomic crises and mental health. It then outlines potential preventive actions that target these factors, such as social protection policies, community development programs, parenting education, and early detection/treatment of mental health issues. Finally, it provides examples of specific evidence-based prevention interventions that could help reduce the mental health burden of socioeconomic crises.
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Alleviating Mental Health Impact of Economic Crises
1. Socio-economic Crises and Mental Health:
From Research to Action
Round Table
Policies and strategies to alleviate
the mental health impact of socioeconomic crisis
What could Research, Policies and Practices of
Mental Health Promotion and
Mental Disorder Prevention contribute?
Clemens Hosman
Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Promotion and Prevention
Maastricht University & Radboud University Nijmegen
2. Questions
1. Analysis and theory: What are the mediating and moderating factors
and processes between Socioeconomic crises and Mental Health,
that could be targets and entrees for preventive actions?
2. From Theory to Action: What evidence-based interventions are
available in the domain of prevention in Mental Health? How effective?
Are they relevant for alleviating the MH burden of Socioeconomic crises?
3. From Interventions to Public Impact: What is needed to get preventive
interventions implemented, scaled, reaching target populations and to
create significant public impact?
?
3. Alleviating the impact of economic crisis on mental health:
Preventive Actions
Socio-
Economic
Crisis
Mental health
Mental disorders
children
adolescents
adults
Elderly
Vulnerable
groups
Health, social
and economic
outcomes
What could we do?
Policies Interventions Practices
4. Alleviating the impact of economic crisis on mental health:
Preventive Actions
Socio-
Economic
Crisis
Mental health
Mental disorders
children
adolescents
adults
Elderly
Vulnerable
groups
Health, social
and economic
outcomes
Access mental health care
Early detection and treatment
Rehabilitation Anti stigma
5. Alleviating the impact of economic crisis on mental health:
Preventive Actions
Socio-
Economic
Crisis
Mental health
Mental disorders
children
adolescents
adults
Elderly
Vulnerable
groups
Health, social
and economic
outcomes
Mediating factors
Moderating factors
Macro level
Community
Family
Person
Access mental health care
Early detection and treatment
Rehabilitation Anti stigma
Interventions programs
Practices
Policy 2016
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6. Alleviating the impact of economic crisis on mental health:
Preventive Actions
Socio-
Economic
Crisis
Mental health
Mental disorders
children
adolescents
adults
Elderly
Vulnerable
groups
Health, social
and economic
outcomes
Mediating factors
Moderating factors
Macro level
Community
Family
Person
Conditions for Implementation and Public Impact
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7. Mediators of impact socio-economic crisis on mental health
Poor Mental Health
Mental disorders
Depression - Anxiety
Externalising problems
Alcohol-related disorders
Suicide
Work Income Debts Housing
Neighbourhood quality
Family functioning and Parenting
Stress, Vulnerability and Coping
Health care quality and access
Social capital: support and connectedness
Social protection
Entree points and targets of preventive Action
Health, social and
economic outcomes
Mediating determinants
Socio-
Economic
Crisis
Community
Family
Individual
Negative impact
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8. Impact model socioeconomic crisis on mental health
Socio-
Economic
Crisis
Pre-existing strengths
Mediating determinants
negative changes in:
Work, Income, Housing, Debts
Neighborhood quality
Health care & Social services
Social protection
Social capital, support and connectedness
Family functioning & Parenting
Stress & Vulnerabilty in children, adults, elderly
Moderators
Coping capacities: vulnerabilities & strengths
Family functioning, SES, parental mental illness
Social support, comm.involvement, social protection
Quality of primary and MH health care
Prevention support
weaknessesCommunity
Family
Individual
Poor Mental Health
Mental disorders
Depression - Anxiety
Externalising problems
Alcohol-related disorders
Suicide
Health, social and
economic outcomes
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9. To design effective prevention policies and interventions
We need insight and evidence:
Causality of factors and role
mediators ‒ moderators
Interaction & cumulative effects
Effect sizes - Public impact
Causal sequences of factors
across levels ‒ life course
Integration of scattered knowledge
Need for comprehensive
and useful theoretical
frameworks
on mediating and
moderating processes
‒ to guide RESEARCH
and build a stronger
evidence base
‒ to guide ACTION
‒ Achieve PUBLIC IMPACT
?
“There is nothing so practical as a good theory” Kurt Lewin (1951)
10. How do mediating and moderating variables work
between Socio-Economic Crises and Mental Health?
Multiple causal frameworks could be used to understand “how”
SE crisis impacts on development of mental health / disorders
generic biological, psychological and social theories
Crisis-, Cognitive-behavioral, Stress-competence-support; Positive psychology
Neurobiological, epigenetic, Developmental, Family-system, Socio-ecological
Community development, Organizational, Macro-social and economic,
Problem-specific theories (e.g. depression, anxiety; poverty; violence; social isolation)
?
Different theories guide to different preventive stategies
Combining theories could support integrative prevention policy
11. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
Associations found between SE-crisis
and many outcome variables
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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12. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
Prevention aims to influence
mediating and moderating trajectories
between crisis and mental health
How related?
How to influence?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Long term impact
school work health
13. From Theory to Action
Target at which factors? Which mediating causal trajectories?
What strategies and interventions are available in the field of
prevention and from prevention science?
Effective? Cost-benefit ratio? Return-of-Investment ?
Are they relevant for alleviating the mental health burden of
socioeconomic crises?
Next to research outcomes other sources are also relevant and welcome:
‒ experience-based knowledge
‒ best practices fom citizens initiatives
‒ low budget solutions from LMICs
‒ inspiring examples from social innovation
14. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Social Protection Policies and Measures
Income e.g. tax measures, minimum income,
social benefits, debt management
Labor e.g. labor market programs, generating jobs,
better access, incentives to work, job seeking training,
micro-financing projects
Housing (e.g. housing projects, affordable rent,
shelters for homeless)
Material support (e.g. food stamps, transportation)
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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15. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Mental health
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediational and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Stress management
programs
Depression prevention
CBT programs
group- or internet based
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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16. Long term impact
school work health
Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediational and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Early Detection & treatment
Use of E-Mental Health technology
Advocacy
Policy change
Professional Guidelines
Training health professionals
2016
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17. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediating and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Reducing
access to
lethal means
Long term impact
school work health
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Media coverage
of suicide
18. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediating and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Community development
Social empowerment
Support systems
Consumer organizations
Micro financing projects
Social innovation initiatives
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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19. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediating and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Preschool Enrichment Programs
School-based Soc Emot Learning
After-school programs
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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20. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediating and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Parenting education
Family support
Child abuse prevention
Divorce programs
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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21. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediating and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Healthy start
Prenatal & postnatal
homevisting programs
MH Traininng nurses and midwives
Long term impact
school work health
2016
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22. Healthy
Pregnancy - Early Start
Externalizing
problems
Conduct disorders
Parenting
Competence
Quality
Family
Stress & Strenghts
Conflicts, Violence
Child maltreatment
Divorce
Suicide
Suicidal
behavior
Social-emotional
Competence
resilience, vulnerability
enrichment
Anxiety
Depression
Alcohol use
Problem drinking
What are the mediating and
moderating trajectories between
SE-crisis and mental health?
Distress
&
Coping
Parental mental
disorders / addiction
Children COPMI
Socioeconomic Crisis
Income loss, Debts, Poverty
Insecure jobs and housing
Social material deprivation
Community
Social Support /Capital
Pre-school
School system
Health care
Public Health
Workplaces
Media
Internet
Long term impact
school work health
COPMI support
Preventive interventions for
Children and Families dealing with
parental mental illness or addiction
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23. Healthy Start of life
Pre-, postnatal Home-visiting
Prevention Training Professionals
nurses and midwives
Alcohol prevention
programs and measures
School-based SEL
Social-emotional learning
Violence prevention
Suicide prevention
programs
Social Protection
Policies & Measures
JOBS program
Innovative options
Integrating MH and preventive
elements in other Sectors & Programs
Prevention
Early detection & treatment
Relapse prevention
Depression Anxiety
Parent support
Parenting education
COPMI
Preventive support
children & Families
Preschool enrichment
programs
Child protection
Prevention
Early intervention
Relapse prevention
Stress management
programs
Community Programs
Communities-that-Care
Social connectedness
Community development
E-mental Health – SocMedia
Disorder specific
Positive psychology
Integral policy
Universal + Targeted
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24. Focus at vulnerable groups during economic recession
Groups most hit by economic consequences
Adults with job loss /unemployed
People mired in debt and housing/mortgage problems; poverty
Families in recession-related stress and divorce
Elderly with low pension
Groups with pre-existing vulnerability
Chronically mentally ill
COPMI Children and families dealing with Parental Mental Illness
Low SES groups
Refugees and immigrants
Groups at high risk of severe, long term, multiple consequences
Children under stress, especially during pregnancy and early years
Unemployed adolescents (NEETs): not in education, employment or training
Hosman 2016
26. Mental disorders / problems
• depression and anxiety
• behavioral problems, conduct disorder
• substance use; eating disorders
• psychotic episode
• suicide
Mental health - Mental capital
• emotional resilience – stress management
• problem solving and social competence
Risk and Protective factors
parenting competence & attachment
abuse, neglect, domestic violence
bullying and safety
social isolation and social capital
Populations at risk e.g.
Increased symptoms, prodrome
COPMI: transmission parents to child
parental separation or death
low SES families and communities
workers under stress; unemployed
for all these targets evidence exists
of significant effects
prevention and promotion programs
Preventing, Mental,
Emotional and Behavioral
Disorders Among Young
People
Progress and Possibilities
Health Promotion International
Many
systematic
reviews &
meta-analyses
+
27. How effective? Examples of Evidence from meta-analyses / reviews
post FU %RR
ES ES Relative Reduction
School-based SEL SEL skills .57 .26
(213 programs) Conduct problems .22 .14
Emotional distress .24 .15
Academic performance .27 .32
Stress management youth (19) stress symptoms .86
Parenting programs (37) child maltreatment .30
Universal prevention in children Anxiety .13 .11
Depression .11 .07
Selective + Indicated Depression prevention (19) -22% (onset)
Mindfulness CT Depression relapse prevention (9) -34% (43%)
Early childhood education – arrest violent crime -33% ‒ 41%
COPMI children parental MI depr.symptoms (7) .22 -40% (onset)
Fagan & Catalano 2012
Durlak et al. 2011
Cuijpers et al. 2008
Piet & Hougaard 2011
Siegentaler et al. 2012
Kraag et al. 2006
Ahlen et al. 2015
Chen et al. 2016
2016
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28. domestic violence
youth violence & delinquency ROI $2 to $5
lossed productivity
cost welfare
income
school achievement
social participation
Mental Health
Promotion
Prevention
programmes
show also
Social
and
economic
Benefits
Crucial for involving
stakeholders and
getting public support
Economic benefits exceed costs of youth programmes up to 10x
IOM Report 2009; MHEEN Report of Zechmeister et al. 2008;
Aos et al. 2004 on >50 early childhood studies
29. Conclusions from outcome research
g Preventive interventions can be effective and cost-effective
g Evidence for broad spectrum of preventive outcomes
and social & economic benefits from variety of intervention
g Long term effects found (up to 40 years)
g Large variation in efficacy and effectiveness:
From large to small / no / iatrogenic effects.
Meta-analyses Mean ES: small-moderate. Need for improvement
g Low implementation rate and low reach in population,
almost no evidence on public impact
g Most interventions person-family oriented and from HICs
More focus needed on social interventions and their outcomes
30. From Interventions to Public Impact
What is needed to get preventive interventions
implemented, scaled, reach target populations
and to create public impact?
Major bottleneck worldwide:
low implementation rate
low / selective access and reach
low public impact
from HICs
Preventive programs can only make a difference when implemented at large scale
31. Improve Implementation, Scaling, Reach and Public Impact
Improve effects of intervention (effect management)
Use intervention & dissemination methods with large reach & low costs
More interventions more adaptable and cosumable: working elements, kernals
Make the multiple health, social and economic benefits visible
Advocate for more prominent position of prevention and mental health in ….
Increase power: Involve citizens, social movements, stakeholders
Embed prevention in sectors, policies and legislation
Enlarge resources for prevention by budget shifts and return for investment
Train professionals and officials in preventon and mental health expertise
Interorganisational collaboration and monitoring
Use principles of ‘Colective Action’ and ‘Collective Impact”
Improve management and shared leadership
Programs
Advocacy
Capacity
Shared
leadership
Hosman 2016
32. Make it
smaller
Kernals
Principles
Working elements
Make it
Bigger & Coherent
integral
multicomponent program
+ wide implementation
Relevant Effective
preventive interventions
databases
for dissemination
Widely integrated in
daily life & practice
Prevention Density
Multually supporting &
complementory activities
to achieve Collective Impact
Make
implementation
large public reach
public impact
possible
Expertise
Manpower
Public support
Policy &
legislation
Organization
Collaboration
Knowledge &
Research
Crisis &
derpression
Single programs
you could adopt
and be inspired by
Create
the conditions
Hosman 2016
33. Thank you
Contact:
Prof. dr. Clemens M.H. Hosman
Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Promotion and Mental Disorder Prevention
Radboud University Nijmegen & Maastricht University
Hosman Prevention Consultancy & Innovation, Berg en Dal, the Netherlands
Hosman@psych.ru.nl