title: World Health organization guidelines for management of acute stress, PTSD, and bereavement: key challenges on the road ahead.
abstract: Wietse Tol and colleagues discuss some of the key challenges for implementation of new WHO guidelines for stress-related mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Wietse A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Tol
authors.affiliation: WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
authors.forename: Corrado
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barbui
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bisson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Allegheny General Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: International Medical Corps, Santa Monica, California, and Washington, D.C., United States of America.
authors.forename: Zeinab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hijazi
authors.affiliation: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Lynne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Joop T V M
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: de Jong
authors.affiliation: WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-based Research Synthesis and Guideline Development, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Magrini
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Olayinka
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Omigbodun
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Soraya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seedat
authors.affiliation: School of Psychiatry and Ingham Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Derrick
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Silove
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom & Institute for Research and Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
authors.forename: Athula
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sumathipala
authors.affiliation: SNEHA, Voluntary Health Services, Department of Psychiatry, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Lakshmi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vijayakumar
authors.affiliation: International Medical Corps, Santa Monica, California, and Washington, D.C., United States of America.
authors.forename: Inka
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Weissbecker
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, United States of America.
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zatzick
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Ommeren
mesh_terms: D001601:Bereavement; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health / Q000592:standards*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014944:World Health Organization