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The document has been issued by the Global Protection Cluster with input from the co-chairs of the IASC Reference Group for MHPSS. The central tenet is that stronger engagement of protection…
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The United Nations (UN) integrated disarmament, demobilization and reintegration standards (IDDRS) provide direction and guidance to those engaged in preparing, implementing and supporting disarmament, demobilization and re integration (DDR) programmes.…
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Health Care and Psychosocial Support for Former Combatants and Families Migration Health Division Information Sheet Series
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This Compendium was prepared by the Transition and Recovery Division (TRD) of IOM’s Department of Operations and Emergencies (DOE). Specific acknowledgements are made to Susan Price, Lily Van Egeraat, Giulia…
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This manual on smart practices for working with migrant unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) is intended to be a resource for National Societies seeking to develop or enhance protection and…
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This joint report from UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) explores in detail survey data from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, focusing on adolescents…
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This case study describes the role of community-based child protection committees in improving the safety and protection of children in three South Sudanese refugee camps in Gambella, Ethiopia. Key lessons include…
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This report is the review outcome for the Philippines. A comprehensive systematic review identified 149 research studies (89 which are unpublished or grey literature and 59 academic journal articles)…
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This report, based on 118 in-depth interviews with children with disabilities and their families, disability advocates, staff of institutions, and government officials, documents a range of issues that children with…
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Among the millions of children on the move worldwide, many – including hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children and adolescents – undertake dangerous journeys. This report shows how the lack…
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This paper presents an overview of key challenges and dilemmas faced in the protection of humanitarian action and aims to provide an initial overview of the legal, policy, and operational…
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RESUMEN Las violaciones graves de derechos humanos (VGDH), y los actos de violencia sociopolí-tica, resultan devastadores para las personas que los sufren, e impactan profundamente el tejido y la dinámica…
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The Best Practice Guide is operational guidance on how to set up and run an inter-agency community-based complaint mechanism (CBCM) to handle reports of sexual abuse and exploitation by aid…
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To help emergency management institutions in countries of destination include migrants in their work, IOM has developed a manual and a training course that builds on past case studies and…
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The report addresses the devastating impact of violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work, the vulnerabilities faced by women workers in non-standard forms of employment,…
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México enfrenta desde hace varios años una grave crisis de Derechos Humanos y violencia, que ha generado un significativo número de víctimas directas e indirectas que por su volumen y…
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Ante la ocurrencia de eventos de violencia sociopolítica y Violaciones Graves de Derechos Humanos (VGDH), resulta fundamental la documentación puntual y temprana de la ocurrencia de estos acontecimientos y los impactos que generan en…
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Violaciónes graves de Derechos Humanos, que fragmentan en la profundidad del tejido social, alteran la dinámica familiar y destruyen la subjetividad del individuo, por lo tanto es esencial que desde…
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The aim of this paper is to examine factors which influence the inclusion of people with psychosocial disability in development and promote understanding as to why and how development actors…
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This report gives an estimate of the number of immigrant and refugee children who will enter the United States in 2016, where they come from, and the traumas they face.…
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This study explores the socio-economic consequences of refugee status in Uganda. It does not directly engage with the material disadvantages that come with being a refugee, but instead looks at…
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Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate.
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The present study is a pilot in Israel that examines the issue of ‘‘ambiguous loss’’: the presence-absence of a parent from the perspective of adults who were children when their…
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Drawing on ethnographic data from a study with 17 working-class, transnational Latina teens, I examine the media practices they perform to cope with ambiguous loss. According to Pauline Boss (1993,…
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For all the disdain that post modernist philosophy has generated in the family social science field, one of its redeem- ing qualities has been its work as a catalyst in…
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The communities are experts of their lives but the facilitator brings expertise through Narrative Theatre in understanding the root causes and strategies of the problems and finding collective ways to…
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Ambiguous loss has become a standard theory for understanding the impact of situations where the presence of a family member is subject to ambiguity. A number of studies of ambiguous…
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This paper attempts to develop a new framework within which to comprehend the interrelationship between the ‘inner’ and ‘external’ worlds, between the personal and social, and among the intra-/inter-/trans-psychic realms.…
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This paper attempts to develop a psychological perspective on the phenomenon of terrorism while attending to the epistemological traps inherent in this kind of endeavour. Etymological, mythological, historical and psychological…
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At the outset, I wish to salute Andrew Samuels, my friend and colleague of more than thirty years, for the breath of fresh air he brought into the world of…
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Systemic therapists work in many different settings and face varied challenges. What I will try to outline here are some of my experiences in working in a large refugee camp…
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The nature of the refugee phenomenon is examined and the position of mental health professionals is located in relation to it. The various uses of the word ‘trauma’ are explored…
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In this paper,the authors describe an interactive community approach that addressed the issue of domestic violence in a refugee camp in northern Uganda.
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The paper describes the general use of Narrative Theatre and the skills needed by facilitators. Attention is given to the importance of structural support in terms of management, supervision in…
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The Lost Boys of Sudan were separated from their families by civil war and subsequently lived in 3 other countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, and the United States. In-depth interviews were conducted with…
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School counselors are regularly tasked with managing student’s emotions and behaviors that impede school performance. This daunting assignment can be overwhelming for school professionals. With the many diagnoses that may…
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This study examined the experience of ambiguous loss for family members caring for a person with dementia living in a long-term care facility. Data for this study came from in-depth,…
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L’épidémie se présentant toujours comme un péril venu d’ailleurs, l’immigration offre à sa propagation un cadre d’interprétation qui s’impose au monde social avec la force de l’évidence, que ce soit…
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In recent years, Walter Benjamin’s illumination that ‘‘the state of exception has become the rule’’ has been reactivated by several authors who have seen in contemporary politics a trivialization of…
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The first report of an American missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam Conflict occurred in 1961, and such losses continued until the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 (Department…
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Since its introduction 30 years ago, family boundary ambiguity (BA) has been a widely used construct in family stress research and clinical intervention. In this article, we present a comprehensive…
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Ambiguous loss is a newly identified type of loss that occurs when a loved one is physically present, but psychologically absent. Dementia is just one example. Because the lost person…
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Therapies for grief and loss have traditionally focused on the work of grieving. The goal was to reach an endpoint, now popularly called closure. There are, however, many people who,…
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Family boundary ambiguity is increasingly used in family research to describe and predict the effects of family membership loss and change over time. Boundary ambiguity is defined as the family…
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A team of therapists from Minnesota and New York worked with labor union families of workers gone missing on September 11, 2001, after the attack on the World Trade Center,…
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On September 12, I received a phone call from New York from a former student whose husband, president of a large labor union, was seeking help for union members and…
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On the occasion of my retirement from the University of Minnesota, a symposium was held to encourage the continuation of research about ambiguous loss and boundary ambiguity. This special issue…
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This article contains an overview of three decades of research, theory development, and clinical application about ambiguous loss. Although the work includes both physical and psychological types of ambiguous loss,…
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In this paper, I discuss ambiguous loss, why it is so traumatizing, what to do to lower the distress when someone disappears without a trace, and why a tribute is…