From Individual to Collective healing: A trainer’s manual
Prevention, Assessment and Management
Externalizing disorders
Chapter D.1
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Alcohol misuses
Substance use disorders
Chapter G.1
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2014;35(3):179–85
This document is for humanitarian health actors working at national and sub-national level in countries facing humanitarian emergencies. It applies to Health Cluster partners, including governmental... and non-governmental health service providers.
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This document by the IASC Reference Group for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support was developed in consultation with the IASC Global Health Cluster.
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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 and mental health...n> consequences of biological and chemical attacks.
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Echoes from Syria Issue 5
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalised anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence
This brief guidance note seeks to provide advice on protecting and supporting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Europe. It describes key princi...ples and appropriate interventions to guide all those who are designing and organizing emergency services and/or providing direct assistance to the affected people
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