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Tools to thrive - Identifying feelings

Friendship Bench (2020) CC

Feelings just are. They are neither good nor bad. Emotions are a natural reaction to a situation, a person, an environment. We cannot not have feelings. The word “bad” when referring to feelings is a inaccurate description because there is no such thing as a bad feeling. Difficult feelings do ... more

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Tools to thrive - Tracing feelings

Friendship Bench (2020) CC

Let’s take feelings one step further. Feelings stem from experience. “Tracing feelings back” means tracing an uncomfortable feeling back to the source: an argument, a disappointment, a change, an event or situation. Doing this allows you keep you feelings in check, helps you learn about your... more

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Pela saúde mental das crianças em isolamento

Filipa Pedro dos Reis (2020) CC

Aos cuidadores das crianças em isolamento Num período de pandemia, onde uma das medidas de contenção de propagação da COVID-19 exige a restrição de contactos sociais, incluindo o encerramento das escolas, milhares de crianças portuguesas ficarão em situação de isolamento. Isto implica u... more

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Dealing with children and adolescent mental health during the Coronavirus pandemic - Guidelines and recommendations in multiple languages

European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ESCAP (2020) CC

As the Coronavirus pandemic heightens, ESCAP is sourcing guidelines, recommendations and information in various languages to help exchange knowledge on dealing with mental health in children and adolescent during this time.

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Emerging Minds Network

Emerging Minds (2020) CC

The Emerging Minds Network is committed to reducing the prevalence of mental health problems experienced by children and young people. As part of that, we hope to promote wellbeing through sharing positive practice and information. We hope to build a bank of community resources from and for our netw... more

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Child protection emergency preparedness and response guidance to the COVID-19

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region (2020) C_UNICEF

Infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, can have a significant impact on children’s and their caregivers’ wellbeing beyond the disease itself. In terms of child protection, there are three main potential secondary impacts: - Neglect and lack of parental care. - Mental health and Psychosocia... more

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Tip-sheet to identify and make use of online and digital resources to offer mental health and psychosocial support to children and adolescents in the context of COVID-19

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region (2020) C_UNICEF

The current COVID-19 epidemic, like other infectious disease outbreak previously, imposes to Child Protection actors to work and deliver services with great creativity and flexibility, especially in those areas of interventions traditionally relying on group-gathering (i.e. Child Friendly Spaces)... more

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Remote Psychological First Aid during COVID-19 – May 2020

IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support (2020) CC

Psychological first aid (PFA) is a method of helping people in distress so they feel calm and supported to cope better with their challenges. It is a way of assisting someone to manage their situation and make informed decisions. The basis of psychological first aid is caring about the person in dis... more

Living in Chains: Shackling of People with Psychosocial Disabilities Worldwide

Human Rights Watch HRW (2020) C1

The report examines how people with mental health conditions are often shackled by families in their own homes or in overcrowded and unsanitary institutions, against their will, due to widespread stigma and a lack of mental health services. Many are forced to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate in t... more