The Summer School - which is in its second edition - is jointly organized by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It aims at providing a framework of understanding of the psychosocial dimension of displacement, while presenting harmonized ethics, approaches and tools associated with psychosocial ...
The latest issue of the Intervention Journal, the International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, has just been published. This special issue is on the theme of 'the integration of mental health into existing health systems during and after complex emergencies'. To access ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The MHPSS Network now has a presence on Facebook, Twitter and on Linkedin. This is to allow us to share content more effectively with a) interested members of the public, b) MHPSS stakeholders who use Facebook as their primary professional networking platform, and c) professionals and organizations that use Linkedin ...
