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War and conflict turns lives upside down and millions of adults and children witness atrocities, lose loved ones and often lose their homes and even their countries. The psychological and emotional suffering can continue long after the immediate threat to their life has gone. One in every five people touched by war \\u2013 that\\u2019s 20% - will have a mental health problem that needs help and one in twenty or 5% will be severely affected.

As the humanitarian crisis deepens in the Ukraine with millions under bombardment and ten million people forced from their homes, Claudia Hammond and her guests explore the evidence behind the mental health interventions that do take place around the world: do they work and are they reaching the people who need them?

Two Ukrainian psychiatrists tell Claudia about the psychological support they\\u2019re trying to coordinate for their traumatised fellow Ukrainians. Dr Iryna Frankova is also a psychologist and she\\u2019s chair of the ECNP Traumatic Stress Network and with colleagues she\\u2019s helped to launch a new downloadable chatbot which offers information and psychological first aid. Dr Orest Suvalo from the Institute of Mental Health at the Ukrainian Catholic University is in Lviv in the west of Ukraine and he\\u2019s been trying to coordinate care for fleeing citizens as they arrive at the city\\u2019s railway station.

Claudia\\u2019s panel includes Bill Yule, Emeritus Professor of Applied Child Psychiatry at Kings College, London, who pioneered evidence-based interventions for children caught up in war and trauma (he\\u2019s one of the founders of the Children and War Foundation set up in the 1990s during the wars in the Balkans); Professor Emily Holmes from the department of psychology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden who uses the power of mental imagery to reduce traumatic, intrusive memories or flashbacks (she\\u2019s been using these techniques to develop treatments for refugees who have fled war and conflict) and Dr Peter Ventevogel, psychiatrist and medical anthropologist and senior mental health officer with UNHCR, the refugee agency at the United Nations.

And Dr Kennedy Amone P\\u2019Olak, Professor of Psycho-traumatology at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa joins from Uganda, where he\\u2019s tracked the mental health of hundreds of the children and young people who were abducted and recruited by the Lord\\u2019s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda.

Produced by: Fiona Hill and Maria Simons \\nStudio Engineers: Phil Lander and Emma Harth