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  • MHPSS and protection outcomes – September 2020
    Uploaded by Shilpa Samaratunge on 10/6/2020 in Protection and human rights
    Downloads: 404
    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…
    Author(s): Sarah Harrison, Fahmy Hanna, Peter Ventevogel, Nancy Polutan-Teulieres, William S. Chemaly

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    Categories: Survivors
  • The Operational Guide to the Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS)
    Uploaded by valeflorez on 7/15/2020
    Downloads: 106
    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
    Uploaded by valeflorez on 7/15/2020
    Downloads: 133
    Health Care and Psychosocial Support for Former Combatants and Families Migration Health Division Information Sheet Series
    Author(s): IOM

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  • Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Compendium of Projects 2010-2017
    Uploaded by valeflorez on 7/15/2020
    Downloads: 148
    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…
    Author(s): IOM

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  • Manual on Smart Practices for Working with Migrant Unaccompanied and Separated Children in the Easter Region
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 11/24/2017 in Psychosocial Care & Protection of Children
    Downloads: 143
    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…
    Author(s): Published by: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2017

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  • Harrowing Journeys: Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 9/24/2017 in Psychosocial Care & Protection of Children
    Downloads: 192
    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…
    Author(s): Published by: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and International Organization for Migration (IOM), September 2017

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  • Community-based child protection as a strategy for protecting South Sudanese refugee children: a case study from Gambella, Ethiopia
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 5/31/2017 in Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE)
    Downloads: 163
    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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  • A Systematic Literature Review of the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children: the Philippines
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 5/31/2017 in Psychosocial Care & Protection of Children
    Downloads: 83
    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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  • “It is My Dream to Leave This Place”: Children with Disabilities in Serbian Institutions
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 5/31/2017 in Disability
    Downloads: 146
    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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  • A Child is a Child: Protecting children on the move from violence, abuse and exploitation
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 5/25/2017 in Psychosocial Care & Protection of Children
    Downloads: 126
    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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  • Protecting Humanitarian Action: Key Challenges and Lessons from the Field
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 4/13/2017 in Dissemination of information about MHPSS in emergencies
    Downloads: 110
    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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  • Violaciones graves a derechos humanos, reparación simbólica y medidas de satisfacción: una revisión
    Uploaded by José Manuel Bezanilla on 4/12/2017 in RED MEXICANA DE ATENCIÓN Y ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PSICOSOCIAL
    Downloads: 140
    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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    Categories: Psychology, Psychosocial, victims
  • Best Practice Guide Inter-Agency Community-Based Complaint Mechanisms: Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 3/13/2017 in Gender-Based Violence
    Downloads: 198
    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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  • Integrating migrants in emergency preparedness, response and recovery in their host countries: Reference Handbook
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 3/13/2017
    Downloads: 181
    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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  • Violence and Harassment against Women and Men in the World of Work: Trade Union Perspective and Action
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 3/10/2017 in Gender-Based Violence
    Downloads: 68
    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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  • AVANCES EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL MODELO MEXICANO DE ATENCIÓN Y ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PSICOSOCIAL 2016
    Uploaded by José Manuel Bezanilla on 3/1/2017 in RED MEXICANA DE ATENCIÓN Y ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PSICOSOCIAL
    Downloads: 118
    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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    Categories: Psychology, Psychosocial, victims
  • VIOLACIONES GRAVES A DERECHOS HUMANOS, DOCUMEN – T A C I Ó N D E L D A Ñ O Y R E S C A T E D E L A M E M O R I A : E s t u d i o s de impacto psicosocial
    Uploaded by José Manuel Bezanilla on 2/10/2017 in RED MEXICANA DE ATENCIÓN Y ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PSICOSOCIAL
    Downloads: 179
    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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    Categories: Methodology, Psychology, Psychosocial, victims
  • Violaciones Graves a Derechos Humanos: Acción inmediata y primer contacto desde una "mirada psicosocial"
    Uploaded by José Manuel Bezanilla on 2/10/2017 in RED MEXICANA DE ATENCIÓN Y ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PSICOSOCIAL
    Downloads: 167
    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…
    Author(s): José Manuel Bezanilla y Ma. Amparo Miranda

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    Categories: Psicología, psicosocial, víctimas
  • Promoting the rights of people with psychosocial disability in development research and programming
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 2/8/2017 in Disability
    Downloads: 85
    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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  • Moving beyond Trauma: Child Migrants and Refugees in the United States
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 2/3/2017
    Downloads: 70
    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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  • What Difference Does It Make To Be A Refugee?: Evidence from Field Experiments and Qualitative Inquiry
    Uploaded by Mike Quilala on 2/2/2017
    Downloads: 74
    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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  • The Biopolitics of Otherness
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 110
    Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate.

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  • Ambiguous Loss: The Long-Term Effects on the Children of POWs
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 157
    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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  • The role of social capital and conflict transformation in Africa.
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 120
    Power Point Presentation.

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  • Ambiguous Loss and the Media Practices of Transnational Latina Teens: A Qualitative Study
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 122
    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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  • NARRATIVE THEATRE TRAINING
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 129
    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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  • NARRATIVE THEATRE TRAINING
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 127
    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 in a Non-Western Context: Families of the Disappeared in Postconflict Nepal
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 177
    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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  • The Umwelt and Networks of Archetypal Images: A Jungian Approach to Therapeutic Encounters in Humanitarian Contexts
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 147
    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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  • TERRORISM AND PANIC
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 135
    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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  • Extending Jungian psychology Working with survivors of political upheavals
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 137
    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 challenges in a refugee camp
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 188
    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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  • Refugees, trauma and Adversity-Activated Development
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 134
    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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  • Narrative Theatre as an Interactive Community Approach to Mobilizing Collective Action in Northern Uganda
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 154
    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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  • Narrative Theatre for Social Action: A skill for psychosocial workers.
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 136
    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: Ambiguous Loss, Search for Family, and Reestablishing Relationships With Family Members
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 160
    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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  • Ambiguous Loss and its Effects on Children: Implications and Interventions for School Counselors
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 100
    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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  • Understanding Ambiguous Loss in the Context of Dementia Care: Adult Children’s Perspectives
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 115
    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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  • Une double peine: La condition sociale des immigrés malades du sida
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 101
    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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  • Humanitarian exception as the rule: The political theology of the 1999 Tragedia in Venezuela
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 88
    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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  • Exploring Ambiguous Loss: Wives of Servicemen Missing in Action in Vietnam
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 98
    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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  • Family Boundary Ambiguity: A 30-Year Review of Theory, Research, and Measurement
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 113
    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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  • The Trauma and Complicated Grief of Ambiguous Loss
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 114
    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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  • The Myth of Closure
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 159
    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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  • MEASUREMENT OF BOUNDARY AMBIGUITY IN FAMILIES
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 268
    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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  • HEALING LOSS, AMBIGUITY, AND TRAUMA: A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION WITH FAMILIES OF UNION WORKERS MISSING AFTER THE 9/11 ATTACK IN NEW YORK CITY
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 135
    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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  • Ambiguous Loss: Working with Families of the Missing
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 131
    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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  • Ambiguous Loss Theory: Challenges for Scholars and Practitioners
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 314
    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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  • The Burgess Award Lecture-Ambiguous Loss Research, Theory, and Practice: Reflections After 9/11
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 110
    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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  • A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss
    Uploaded by Thais La Rosa on 1/31/2017
    Downloads: 122
    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…

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