Jordans, M. J., Tol, W. A., & Ventevogel, P. (2014). New frontiers in mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in low resource and conflict affected settings. Intervention, 12, 5-14. This special, extra issue of Intervention marks the occasion of the... Read more
Research
Year of Publication: 2012 “Because we are sisters and brothers” describes the most important outcomes of research activities and documentations about sibling relations in alternative care from five different countries. The SOS Children’s Villages associations in Germany, Austria, France,... Read more
In the absence of existing mental health services, a newly developed community-based psychosocial and mental health care package for children was implemented and evaluated in five conflict-affected countries: Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sudan. Routine monitoring and evaluation... Read more
Cluster randomized trial of a school-based psychosocial intervention aimed at reducing psychological symptoms and strengthening resources in children affected by armed conflict in Sri Lanka Read more
“Experience of traumatic stressors within armed groups can negatively impact social cognitions of mastery, self-efficacy, and control. This could be compounded by postreturn conditions of stigma, little access to education, and limited means of livelihood. We explore an intervention... Read more
A Summary of the Research Findings on Girls and Armed Conflict from CIDA’s Child Protection Research Fund by Myriam Denov, PhD. Read more
“Former child soldiers differ from one another with regard to their post-war experiences, and these differences profoundly shape their psychosocial adjustment over time. Consistent with social stress theory, we observed that post-conflict factors such as stigma can play an... Read more
This is the first prospective study to investigate psychosocial adjustment in male and female former child soldiers (ages 10–18; n = 156, 12% female). The study began in Sierra Leone in 2002 and was designed to examine both risk... Read more
By Theresa S. Betancourt, Stephanie Simmons, Ivelina Borisova, Stephanie E. Brewer, Uzo Iweala, and Marie de la Soudière. Comp Educ Rev. 2008 November 1; 52(4): 565–587. “This study aims to fill this gap and presents the perspectives... Read more
