WHO and UNHCR have just launched a new publication on Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources: Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings.
The toolkit was developed in response to frequent requests from the field for advice on assessment of mental health and psychosocial issues in humanitarian settings. Although a range of ...
Course Description
The Mental Health in Complex Emergencies course is an intensive multidisciplinary 7-day training course for mental health workers and humanitarian program staff who wish to gain insight and competency in establishing mental health or psychosocial programs in (post) conflict areas or in complex disaster settings. The course will provide ...
The IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and co-ordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people's mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency. The Guidelines offer essential advice on how to ...
World Health Organization, War Trauma Foundation and World Vision
International (2011). Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers. WHO: Geneva.
"Psychological first aid has been recommended by many international and national expert groups, including the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) and the Sphere Project. Psychological first aid is an alternative to psychological debriefing. ...
The Inter-agency Group on Children’s Reintegration is currently carrying out desk based research on reintegration. The group is headed by Family for Every Child and others members include representatives from BCN, UNICEF, USAID, the CPC Learning Network, World Vision, IRC, UHI Centre for Rural Childhood, Save the Children and Maestral ...
Welcome! The MHPSS Network is a growing global platform for connecting people, networks and organisations, for sharing resources and for building knowledge related to mental health and psychosocial support both in emergency settings and in situations of adversity. We aspire to building and shaping good practice in support of people ...
The MHPSS Network has a brand new website. Here are 10 simple ways to make the most of the new features that have been added:
1. Use the blue navigation bar on the left-hand side of the homepage (where it says ‘about’, ‘activity’, ‘groups’ etc) and click on the tabs to ...
