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Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental…
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Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental…
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Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental…
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Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental…
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Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental…
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World Mental Health Report (2022) FeaturedMental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental…
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Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of a population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of efficacy…
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The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by the mhGAP programme. This manual is the first…
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The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by the mhGAP programme. This manual is the first…
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This manual was authored by the World Health Organization and the Columbia University. It provides guidance on the use of Inter Personal Therapy in a group format, which in many…
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This manual was authored by the World Health Organization and the Columbia University. It provides guidance on the use of Inter Personal Therapy in a group format, which in many…
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"Are we shifting into a new phase of global mental health (GMH)? Very likely. In this short article we highlight several recent markers over the past year (events, reports, manuals, campaigns,…
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The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by the mhGAP programme. This manual is the first…
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The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by the mhGAP programme. This manual is the first…
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Thinking Healthy (French version) The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by the mhGAP programme. This manual…
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UPCOMING CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on MHPSS in the URBAN context SPONSORED BY URBAN LIFE with Psycho-Social Services and Training Institute in Cairo (PSTIC) CALL FOR PAPERS March 1-2-3, 2019 in Cairo, Egypt FOR INFORMATION /…
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TRAINING Mental Health and Psychosocial Intervention in the URBAN Context AND Training of Trainers of Mental Health and Psychosocial Intervention These practical trainings will enhance the skills of working professionals. They are RESIDENTIAL training…
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A growing proportion of people internally displaced by armed conflict and other violence live in cities and towns. This report looks at their experience in four cities – Mosul in…
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Group Interpersonal Therapy for Depression (Arabic Version)
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Group Interpersonal Therapy for Depression
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CONTENIDO INTRODUCCIÓN 3 ¿QUÉ ES VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO? 4 DENUNCIAR NO ES FÁCIL 13 ¿QUÉ SON LOS PRIMEROS AUXILIOS PSICOLÓGICOS? 15 RESPIRÁ… 19 ¿QUÉ DEBO HACER? 23 ¿CÓMO LO DEBO HACER? 27 PERSONAS QUE PUEDEN NECESITAR OTRO TIPO…
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CONTENIDO INTRODUCCIÓN 3 ¿QUÉ ES VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO? 4 DENUNCIAR NO ES FÁCIL 13 ¿QUÉ SON LOS PRIMEROS AUXILIOS PSICOLÓGICOS? 15 RESPIRÁ… 19 ¿QUÉ DEBO HACER? 23 ¿CÓMO LO DEBO HACER? 27 PERSONAS QUE PUEDEN NECESITAR OTRO TIPO…
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Summary of the research literature on the impact of trauma on the mental health of refugees and asylum-seekers, and includes recommendations for policy-makers, clinicians and researchers.
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This report by International Medical Corps examines coping mechanisms and help-seeking behaviors among Syrian refugees in Jordan, and identifies barriers to service utilization. This assessment aims to inform a wider…
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This resource booklet briefly summarizes the current evidence on the impact of media reporting of suicide, and provides information for media professionals about how to report 05 on suicide, recognizing…
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This report, based on a consultative process and extensive literature reviews, provides information to improve access to essential medicines for mental disorders. It examines current barriers to access to psychotropic…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in coordination with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), held an expert consultation from…
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This booklet provides latest available estimates of the prevalence of depression and other common mental disorders at the global and regional level, together with data concerning the consequences of these…
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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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Power Point Presentation.
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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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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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La Guía de Intervención del Programa de Acción de Interrupción de Salud Mental (mhGAP-IG) para trastornos mentales, neurológicos y de uso de sustancias para entornos de salud no especializados es…
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Las desigualdades en salud están afectando la vida y el futuro de todos los grupos vulnerables de la sociedad en todo el mundo, creando sistemas de injusticia social. Este informe…
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Psychological first aid: Guide for fieldworkers, released by WHO, the War Trauma Foundation (WTF) and World Vision International (WVI). Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an approach recommended in the IASC…
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Este documento proporciona un enfoque y un conjunto de herramientas para ayudar a quienes diseñan y realizan una evaluación de las necesidades y los recursos psicosociales y de salud mental…