PSYCHOSOCIAL AND MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN AREAS OF MASS VIOLENCE A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH

This MSF manual will help those people in coordination positions to understand, create, monitor and evaluate mental health programs.

This guideline is designed to answer questions regarding mental health and psychosocial programming from a theoretical perspective. General concepts about the exposure to violence, resiliency, transcultural psychiatry, potentially traumatic experiences, and their consequences are examine.

Describes specific topics such as assessment, programe planning,monitoring/evaluation as well as training and human resource management.

Addresses intervention approaches both for individuals and groups of adults and children.

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