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Designing for all: A scoping review and critical analysis on how digital mental health interventions serve (or fail) diverse women.

Authors: Zhang R, de Reuver M, Smith ADR, Orchard N, Figueroa C
Journal: Internet interventions
mental health psychology open access

Abstract

Students in many marginalized areas, and the Jalazone camp in particular, suffer from many problems related to their psychological health and learning due to the housing conditions inside the camp, which suffers from weak infrastructure, overcrowding, poverty, and other difficult living conditions. On the one hand, and on the other hand, Jalazone camp in particular, due to its proximity to the so-called Beit El settlement, which was built on the lands of the city of Al-Bireh and the villages of Ein Yabroud and Dura Al-Qara, and has directly faced the camp since 1978, and the daily provocations of the occupation army and the settlements or colonists against school students, causing them suffering, anxiety, distress, and other things. The suffering of the camp’s residents has been exacerbated by the proximity of the settlement, martyrdom of their children, injuries among school students, and closure of the road adjacent to the camp for many years before the occupation opened it and then closed it again from time to time (, ). Therefore, it was necessary to intervene to save the difficult psychological situation that camp residents suffer from. According to a 2018 report by B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, the Jalazone camp is located north of Ramallah. The camp was established in 1949 to provide temporary housing for Palestinians who became refugees during the 1948 war, and whom Israel refused to allow to return to their homes after the war ended. The camp’s residents originate from 36 villages in the Lod, Ramle, Haifa, and Western Hebron areas. According to records from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the current population of the Jalazone camp, seven decades after its establishment, is 14,579, including 5,151 children and youth under the age of 18 ().