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A community-based approach.
These guidelines focus on manmade rather than natural disasters, but our experiences in India, El Salvador and Pakistan (earthquake interventions), and following the 200
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Lunsar, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone
A broad range of UNHCR’s key priorities overlap with MHPSS issues – for example, child protection and sexual and gender-based violence [SGBV] prevention
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This brief guidance note seeks to provide advice on protecting and supporting the mental health and
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As detailed in MSF’s report Confronting the mental health emergency on Samos and Lesbos, the scale of the needs for
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These ICRC guidelines outline the organization’s approach to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) during
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A stated objective of WHO’s European Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 is to ensure better information and knowledge for service planning
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Section I
Somatoform disorders
Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Chapter I.1
Good Practices in Mental Health & Well-being
This document provides guidance to African Union Member States on key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to
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The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informe
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The health impact of radiological and nuclear emergencies can last for decades. Lessons learned from past radiological and nuclear accidents have d
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Compared with other health areas, the mental health impacts of climate change have received less research attention. The literature on climate chan
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To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security,
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Miscellaneous
Child and adolescent psychiatric emergencies
Chapter J.1
This MHPSS in Emergencies training aims to prepare MHPSS responders, disaster managers, and emergency team leaders for work in the field by building understanding of basic concepts of MHPSS in emergencies as well as planning
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Guidance | Preparedness - Response and early recovery - Recovery and reconstruction
Common presentations of other significant mental health complaints include: depressed mood, irritability, anxiety, stress, extreme tiredness, unexplained physical complaints. Other significant
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This article provides an overview of the current and projected climate change risks and impacts to mental
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The QualityRights training and orientation modules have been developed to enhance the knowledge, skills and understanding of key stakeholders on how to promote the rights of people with psychosocial
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Guidance Note: Mental health and Psychosocial Support Implications of Mpox Outbreaks, September 2024
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The IFRC Psychosocial Centre has published a guidance note providing an overview of the psychosocial consequences of virus outbreaks, with a focus on mpox, and outlines key considerations for MHPSS programming.
The current mpox outbreaks present
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Data from the 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey
Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover
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IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Checklist
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Armed conflicts and natural disasters cause significant psychological and social suffering to affected populations. The psychological and social im
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The key updates include: content update in various sections based on new evidence; design changes for enhanced usability; a streamlined and simplified clinical assessment that includes an algorithm for follow-up; inclusion of two new modules
- Ess
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This article describes experiences in implementing a community mental health and development project in a rural district in southern India, includi
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Infant Psychiatry
Chapter B.1
Early Maltreatment and exposure to violence
This handbook and teaching guide on recovery has been designed to complement the QualityRights training module on Promoting Recovery in Mental Health
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Introduction
Chapter A.14
Miscellaneous
Chapter J.5
IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Child psychiatry & pediatrics
Chapter I.1
Somatoform disorders
Review
published: 12 August 2016 doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00166
Frontiers in Public Health | www.frontiersin.org 1 August 2016 | Volume 4 | Article 166
Key highlights from January to April 2020 (Syria situation)
Across the MENA region, UNHCR is receiving alarming reports of increasing mental health issues among the forcibly displaced.
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COVID-19 Recommended Interventions in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) during the Pandemic
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This document describes the essential interventions in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) that should be developed on an intersectoral
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The MHPSS MSP is an easy-to-follow intersectoral package, which spells out the activities and actions that all humanitarian actors should put in place in all emergencies for an effective MHPSS response. It speaks to different actors at the global, r
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Small island developing states (SIDS) are a set of islands and coastal states that share similar sustainable development challenges, as a result of their size, geography and vulnerability to climate
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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental health as ‘a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, ca
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Across the Western Pacific Region COVID-19 is placing enormous strain on health and economic systems apart from direct threats to personal health s
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The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within
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Lancet Global Health Volume 6, ISSUE 2, Pe146-e147, February 01, 2018
Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources Toolkit For Humanitarian Settings
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Available in different languages: English, French, Arabic, Russian
This brief document aims to provide a framework for WHO assistance in this area.
This document provides information for WHO Member States, particularly low-income and middle-income countries, to strengthen preparedness and response plans with regard to the social
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The document is primarily meant to inform mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) staff, such as: psychologists, psychosocial counsellors, s
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Services, Identified needs and recommendations following the April and May 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal
Updates for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) - Guideline.
As part of its response to the global epidemic of obesity, WHO has issued guidelines to support primary healthcare workers identify and manage
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It highlights the numerous challenges to quality service provision, along with the organisation’s response to mental health needs, and recommenda
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This document provides training and guidance on the reasons for, and the impact of, violence, coercion and abuse within
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This document provides training and guidance on the key standards related to the physical and social environment within mental
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Assessment of the quality of institutional care for adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the WHO European Region.
The specific objectives of the project were to address gaps in knowledge about the number
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The right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is enshrined in many international human rights treatie
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Research Paper, Accessed April 10,2019
Maternal Mental Health and child health and development in low and middle income countries
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The impact of maternal mental health problems on infants in high income countries has been identified mostly in terms of psychosocial and emotional
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The purpose of this document is to provide agencies with a guide with three tools containing key assessment questions that are of common relevance to all actors involved in Mental Health
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This paper was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in 2015, and produced by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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Results
Recommendations• NGOs should provide MHPSS services with a focus on empowerment and self-reliance
• Introduce interventions focusing on pain mechanisms, coping strategies and physical
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The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance
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It summarizes guidance on how to manage – and when to refer – children and adolescents presenting with common complaints
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The development of this Operational Roadmap has been driven by a growing consensus in Ukraine on the need to prioritize activities that are urgently required to address the mental health
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Obesity in all age groups, including children and adolescents, is a public health challenge across all settings. Obesity is now classified as a com
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Externalizing disorders
Chapter D.1
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
From Individual to Collective healing: A trainer’s manual
1. MYTH: Sexual violence is just another stressor in populations exposed to extreme stress: there is no need to do anything special to address sexual violence | 2. MYTH: The most important consequence of sexual violence is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | 3. MYTH. Concepts of
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Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2014;35(3):179–85
The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance
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Person-centred recovery planning for mental health and well-being: self-help tool: WHO QualityRights
Ensuring mental health and well-being has become a worldwide imperative and an important target
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Introduction The novel Coronavirus (nCoV) epidemic in 2019 -2020 has recently emerged. The route of transmission is not totally known, although it is known that it can spread from person to person, and local
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“We must not forget that no matter where we are or how old we are, we can all work for life and take action.” Francisco Vera, 15, UNICEF Child Advocate
The Young Climate Activists toolkit was created by advocates of all ages who, like you, ar
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Echoes from Syria Issue 5
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.
Guiding framework for development cooperation, Working paper 2017.
This document was drawn up on the basis of expert publications and inputs from partners in the
GIZ regional programme Psychosocial Support for Syrian
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White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Refugee Trauma Task Force
Miscellaneous
Chapter J.2
The Member States of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
that appear in the tables below have used the assessment instrument for
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Editorial Review
AIDS 2019, 33:1411–1420
18 March 2020
WHO and public health authorities around the world are acting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. However, this time of crisis is generating stress throughout the population. The cons
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In March 2020 the IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support uniting 57 humanitarian organizations as member issued the Interim
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This brief document compiles existing material related to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for the COVID-19 crisis, as well as other
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This document was designed to inform educators, amongst others, about enhancing the pre-service curriculum with mental health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) materials, which can
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scientific brief, 2 March 2022
We need to be concerned about mental health in the context of climate change
Miscellaneous
Chapter J.8
Alcohol misuses
Substance use disorders
Chapter G.1
This document is for humanitarian health actors working at national and sub-national level in countries facing humanitarian emergencies. It applies to Hea
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