Ukraine’s Ministry of Health is already predicting that between three million and four million Ukrainians, many of them children, will need drugs to manage war-related mental-health problems.

One wants a puppy, but must wait until the fighting ends. Ukrainian children are growing up against the backdrop of war. They've endured more than 16 months of escalating violence, trauma and loss.

Credit: Getty Images Clinical psychologists, Dr Sandra Mattar and Dr Nina Thomas, discuss the long-term psychological effects of war and armed conflict on children’s mental health. The American ...

So they’re offering a form of “psychological first aid” to mitigate the worst symptoms. “There are about 1.2 million children who are in need of mental health and psychosocial support.

Four days a week, teams from the global youth aid agency SOS Children’s Villages bring mental health services to children in various rural settlements. These small communities closer to the ...

“Applying these estimates to the population of Ukraine would mean that 9.6 million people may have a mental-health condition, of whom 3.9 million may have conditions that are moderate or severe ...