El Paso, TX, May 7, 2012 (PAHO/WHO) – Violence in Ciudad Juarez has become something regular, city residents live in a fear culture where they are either witnesses or direct victims of violent acts. Victims can suffer of depression from mourning that they have not overcome, anxiety, post traumatic stress, suicidal thoughts, and some other problems that have not been treated, that is why the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) United States-Mexico Border Office and the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) in collaboration with other organizations got together to implement an integral model for violence prevention through an advance mental health graduate course that took place from October 2011 to May 2012.
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