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On World Mental Health Day, the United Nations highlights the importance of making mental health care available to all people who need it, whatever their circumstances and wherever they live. This year, we are drawing attention to the urgent need to provide immediate support to people who experience psychological distress after surviving a crisis. 值此世界精神卫生日之际，联合国强调为所有需要者提供心理保健的重要性，无论他们境况如何，身居何处。今年，我们提请人们注意为危机后备受心理困扰的人提供紧急救助的迫切需要。 These events take many forms. Today, we are witnessing an uNPRecedented wave of humanitarian emergencies linked to conflict and natural disasters. Meanwhile, millions of people each year endure sexual assault, violent crime and traumatic accidents. 危机有多种形式。今天，我们目睹了冲突和自然灾害引发的一波前所未有的人道主义紧急情况。同时，每年还有数百万人遭遇意外事件，受到性侵犯、暴力犯罪的伤害和心理创伤。 Too often, people who suffer like this receive little or no immediate counselling. In situations of humanitarian crisis, it is because there are rarely any trained mental health professionals available. However, it is perfectly possible to train first responders, such as police and fire officers, emergency health staff and humanitarian aid workers to provide “psychological first aid” to people in need. We have seen such examples in the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the approach is also being offered widely in Syria and for thousands of displaced people in Greece, Nigeria and South Sudan. | 
