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Employment (7)

University of Luxembourg: Luxembourg, LU

2022-07 to present
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Mental Health for Ukraine Project: Lviv, UA

2018 to 2022-02-22 | Coordinator mental health services development
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Institute of Social and Political Psychology: Kyiv, UA

2017 to 2021 | Senior Researcher (Social psychology of personality lab)
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Ukrainian Catholic University: Lviv, UA

2015 to 2017 | Professor (Clinical Psychology)
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Ukrainian Catholic University: Lviv, UA

2015 to 2017 | Executive Director (Institute of Mental Health )
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University: Zhytomyr, UA

2001 to 2017 | Professor (Social psychology department)
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Institute of Social and Political Psychology: Kyiv, UA

2014 to 2015 | Senior Researcher (Social psychology of personality lab)
Employment
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Education and qualifications (4)

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Glasgow, GB

2021-01 to 2023-03 | PGDip in Global Mental Health
Education
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Institute of social and political psychology: Kyiv, UA

2012 to 2015 | ScD in Social Psychology (Social psychology of personality lab)
Education
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University: Zhytomyr, UA

2001 to 2004 | PhD in Developmental and Education Psychology (Social psychology department)
Education
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Zhytomyr State University: Zhytomyr, UA

1996-09-01 to 2001-07-30 | Specialist Diploma in Educational Sciences
Education
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Professional activities (18)

The International Society of Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Professionals: London, GB

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Standing Committee on Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Psychology (European Federation of Psychological Associations): Brussel, BE

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Pan-European Mental Health Coalition: Copenhagen , DK

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

National Psychological Association of Ukraine: Kyiv, UA

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network: Washington, DC, US

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Association of Political Psychologists of Ukraine : Kyiv, UA

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

American Psychological Association: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

WHO EURO: Copenhagen, DK

2024-10 to present | Technical Advisory Group on the Framework for Action on Health for People with Disabilities in the WHO European Region 2022-2030
Invited position
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Vitalii Klymchuk

PLOS Mental Health: San Francisco, US

2023-09-13 to present | Editorial Board Member
Service
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Global Mental Health Club: Luxembourg, LU

2022-01 to present
Membership
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Bielefeld University: Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

2022-05-01 to 2022-06-30 | Visiting Researcher (Department of Population Medicine and Health Services Research )
Invited position
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Vitalii Klymchuk

University of Luxembourg: Luxembourg, LU

2022-06-01 | Visiting Fellowship (Department of Social Sciences)
Distinction
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Northwestern University: Evanston, Illinois, US

2022-05-20 | Global Campus Collaborative Virtual Visitorship Grant (Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs)
Distinction
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Vitalii Klymchuk

The Krzysztof Skubiszewski Foundation: Warsaw, PL

2022-04-01 | Non-residential Scholarship
Distinction
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Albanian Order of Psychologists: Tirana, AL

2019-12-01 to 2020-02-01 | Capacity building for MHPSS professionals
Service
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Vitalii Klymchuk

British Council: Kyiv, GB

2016-02-01 | Exploratory grant
Distinction
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Vitalii Klymchuk

President of Ukraine: Kyiv, UA

2009-10-04 | Personal Grant of the President of Ukraine for young scientists
Distinction
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine: Kyiv, UA

2007-09-01 | Scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Distinction
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Funding (8)

Capacity-building on mental health: multidisciplinary training programme and exchange programme for health professionals

2024-01 to 2027-01 | Contract
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Ukraine’s displaced people in the EU: Reach out, Implement, Scale-up and Evaluate interventions promoting mental wellbeing (U-RISE Project)

2022-12 to 2024-12 | Grant
European Health and Digital Executive Agency (Brussel, BE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Mental health and homelessness in social service providers` outlook in Luxembourg

2022-07 to 2023-06 | Grant
Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (Luxembourg, LU)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Ethnicity and mental health: Exploring Nonmedical Approaches to Mental Health for Roma Communities in Ukraine

2019-09 to 2022-02 | Grant
Open Society Foundations (NY, NY, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Community – it is Me: psychosocial promoting of the civic activity of the veterans

2017-09 to 2018-02 | Grant
International Renaissance Foundation (Kyiv, UA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

National PTSD and posttraumatic growth: echoes of the trauma of famine in the psyches of modern Ukrainians

2016-03 to 2017-06 | Grant
University of Alberta (AB, AB, CA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Dealing with the trauma of war in school children

2016-02 to 2016-08 | Grant
Children of Chornobyl Canadian Fund (Toronto, CA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Creation of manual for psychosocial support of adaptation ATO veterans on the evidence-based ground and implementation of it

2016-01 to 2016-12 | Grant
International Renaissance Foundation (Kyiv, UA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Works (37)

Implementing scalable face-to-face and digital interventions among forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Europe: protocol of The U-RISE Project

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2025-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Karl J. Weinreich; Iryna Frankova; Natalie Maksymets; Corrado Barbui; Vitalii Klymchuk; Trudy Mooren; Emilia Olechno; Marianna Purgato; Marit Sijbrandij; Anke B. Witteveen et al.
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Crossref

Universal mental health training for frontline professionals (UMHT)’s feasibility analysis

Open Research Europe
2025-03-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk; Philip Santangelo
Source: check_circle
Crossref

Integration of mental health support in the routine work of community-based NGOs involved in HIV prevention in Ukraine: Dataset

Zenodo
2025-03-10 | Dataset
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk
Source: check_circle
DataCite
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Integration of mental health support in the routine work of community-based NGOs involved in HIV prevention in Ukraine: Dataset

Zenodo
2025-03-10 | Dataset
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk
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DataCite
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Mental Health Sensitive School Concept: Focus Group Discussions

Zenodo
2025-02-25 | Dataset
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk; Viktoriia Gorbunova; Olha Faryma
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DataCite

Mental Health Sensitive School Concept: Focus Group Discussions

Zenodo
2025-02-25 | Dataset
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk; Viktoriia Gorbunova; Olha Faryma
Source: check_circle
DataCite

Universal mental health training for frontline professionals (UMHT)’s feasibility analysis

Open Research Europe
2025-01-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk; Philip Santangelo
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Crossref

Assessing local service providers’ needs for scaling up MHPSS interventions for Ukrainian refugees: Insights from Poland, Slovakia, and Romania

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health
2024 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2054-4251
Contributors: marianna purgato; Monica Bartucz; Giulia Turrini; Beatrice Compri; ELEONORA PRINA; Federica Patania; Emrah Kucukozkan; Anna Zubachova; Martin Mňahončak; Katarína Čavojská et al.
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Ukraine

Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk; Viktoriia Gorbunova; Roslyn Law
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Mental Health and The City: A Tribute to Mariupol, the City that will be Reborn

Intervention
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Prevalence of alcohol use and depressive/anxiety symptoms among patients of opioid agonist treatment programs in Ukraine

ACADEMIA MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
2024 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Universal mental health training for frontline professionals: evaluation of pilot trial in Ukraine [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Open Research Europe
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Gorbunova, V; Klymchuk, V; Portnytska, N; Savychenko, O; Tychyna, I; Steffgen, G
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Vitalii Klymchuk
grade
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Psychology in Ukraine

The Handbook of International Psychology
2024-10-31 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781315682945
Contributors: Valeriia Palii; Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk; Vitalii Klymchuk
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Vitalii Klymchuk

The Commission on mental health in Ukraine: areas for development

The Lancet Psychiatry
2024-10-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk; Kostyantyn Dumchev
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Universal mental health training for frontline professionals: evaluation of pilot trial in Ukraine

Open Research Europe
2024-06-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk; Nataliia Portnytska; Olha Savychenko; Iryna Tychyna; Georges Steffgen
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Crossref

Universal mental health training for frontline professionals (UMHT)’s feasibility analysis

Open Research Europe
2024-04-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk; Philip Santangelo
Source: check_circle
Crossref

UNIVERSAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR FRONTLINE PROFESSIONALS (UMHT)'s FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS

Zenodo
2024-04-04 | Dataset
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk
Source: check_circle
DataCite

UNIVERSAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR FRONTLINE PROFESSIONALS (UMHT)'s FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS

Zenodo
2024-04-04 | Dataset
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk
Source: check_circle
DataCite

UNIVERSAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR FRONTLINE PROFESSIONALS (UMHT)'s FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS

Zenodo
2024-03-19 | Dataset
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk
Source: check_circle
DataCite

Implementation of an evidence-based trauma-focused treatment for traumatised children and their families during the war in Ukraine: a project description

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Pfeiffer; Renée Beer; Anette Birgersson; Natalie Cabrera; Judith A. Cohen; Esther Deblinger; Maike Garbade; Veronica Kirsch; Zlatina Kostova; Michael Larsson et al.
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and social determinants of mental health of Romani in Ukraine

Mental Health and Social Inclusion
2023-07-24 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Contributors: Viktoriia Gorbunova; Vitalii Klymchuk; Olha Savychenko; Valeriia Palii; Zemfira Kondur; Viola Popenko; John Oates
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Effects of cumulative COVID-19 cases on mental health: Evidence from multi-country survey

World Journal of Psychiatry
2023-07-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2220-3206
Contributors: Shanaya Rathod; Saseendran Pallikadavath; Elizabeth Graves; Mohammad M Rahman; Ashlea Brooks; Pranay Rathod; Rachna Bhargava; Muhammad Irfan; Reham Aly; Haifa Mohammad Saleh Al Gahtani et al.
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Vitalii Klymchuk

A summary of the 38th Annual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Presidential Panel: How the traumatic stress community can assist individuals affected by the war in Ukraine

Journal of Traumatic Stress
2023-06-20 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0894-9867
Part of ISSN: 1573-6598
Contributors: Iryna Frankova; Vitalii Klymchuck; Angela Nickerson; Marit Sijbrandij; Ananda B. Amstadter
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Mental health and homelessness in the social service providers' outlook (Luxembourg case)

Mental Health and Social Inclusion
2023-06-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Contributors: Céline Dujardin; Vitalii Klymchuk; Viktoriia Gorbunova
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Vitalii Klymchuk

The experience of launching a psychological hotline across 21 countries to support Ukrainians in wartime

Mental Health and Social Inclusion
2023-05-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Assessing performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index, overall and by select age groups, for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet Global Health
2022-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2214-109X
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk; Annie Haakenstad; Jamal Akeem Yearwood; Nancy Fullman; Corinne Bintz; Kelly Bienhoff; Marcia R Weaver; Vishnu Nandakumar; Jonah N Joffe; Kate E LeGrand et al.
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Decentralisation and community stakeholders’ engagement for better mental health services development in the conflict-affected regions of Ukraine

Journal of Public Mental Health
2022-10-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1746-5729
Part of ISSN: 1746-5729
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk; Vitalii Klymchuk; Krystyna Vysotska; Viktoriia V. Gorbunova
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020

The Lancet
2022-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0140-6736
Contributors: Vitalii Klymchuk
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Applying the national mental health policy in conflict-affected regions: towards better social inclusion (Ukrainian case)

Mental Health and Social Inclusion
2022-04-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Mental health stigma in Ukraine: cross-sectional survey

Global Mental Health
2021 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2054-4251
Source: Self-asserted source
Vitalii Klymchuk

Social determinants of mental well-being: senses of powerlessness and empowerment among Romani in Ukraine

Mental Health and Social Inclusion
2021-12-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
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Vitalii Klymchuk
grade
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Social constructions of mental health among Romani in Ukraine

Mental Health and Social Inclusion
2021-06-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
Part of ISSN: 2042-8308
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Vitalii Klymchuk
grade
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The Psychological Consequences of the Holodomor in Ukraine

East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
2020-10-26 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2292-7956
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Vitalii Klymchuk

High variability of the current mental health practices around the globe: Twenty days in the lives of psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals from all over the world

Global Psychiatry
2020-09-18 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2451-4950
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Norman Sartorius: psychiatry's living legend

The Lancet Psychiatry
2019-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2215-0366
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Vitalii Klymchuk

Mental health care system and reform efforts in Ukraine

Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal
2019-03-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2612-2138
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Vitalii Klymchuk

МОТИВАЦІЙНI ДИСКУРСИ СУЧАСНОСТІ: ВІД МЕТАФОРИ «ВІДПОВІДНОСТІ» ДО МЕТАФОРИ «СТАНОВЛЕННЯ»

2018 | Journal article
URI:

https://doaj.org/article/a25c6deb07ae4937b51f6d3feaa1c160

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Vitalii Klymchuk

Peer review (7 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Journal of affective disorders reports. (1)
Review activity for PLOS mental health. (6)