Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome Project

There is an epidemic of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) among combatants and civilians of all ages who are suffering in the wake of the Ukrainian conflict. The country’s health ministry estimates that between 3 million and 4 million Ukrainians live with PTSD. The psychological aftermath of warfare may be less visible than physical injury and destruction but it is equally debilitating.

How to provide urgently needed affordable psychological interventions on a large scale has become a critical issue. Your donation will allow AAB to support transformative

projects enabling psychologists from key treatment centers to treat PTSD using virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) and other digital tele-psychology modalities. International teams of clinicians, scientists and technologists have created and are deploying platforms to meet this suffering head on.

Structure & Process 

The Ukrainian Project is a collaboration between American, Ukrainian, Polish and

Romanian academic centers and teams of Ukrainian psychologists that has

developed evidence-based VRET and digital modalities allowing Ukrainian

psychologists and clinicians to treat large numbers of patients remotely. These

digital platforms augment the clinicians’ ability to directly treat their patients and

to provide essential peer group social support.

Outcomes

Scientists at USC’s Institute of Creative Technology (ICT) have published results

deploying VRET technology and related digital platforms in other conflict zones

including the successful treatment of US military members in the Middle East.

Your support will allow Ukrainian Project scientists and technologists to carry

these proven approaches forward to create and distribute Ukrainian focused

trauma-based tools to treat the scores of Ukrainian victims of PTSD.

Coming soon