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REPSSI is a regional capacity building organization working in Southern and Eastern Africa to enhance the psychosocial well-being of all children affected by HIV and AIDS, Poverty and Conflict.This group is open to all REPSSI partners, as well as everyone else. Its purpose is to invite dialogue, learning and sharing around PS work

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  • Zambia Rsch: Risks associated with vulnerability (332.5Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 198 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief focusses on the risks associated with being vulnerable: defined here as being orphaned, living with an elderly or chronically ill caregiver.
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  • Zambia Rsch: How complicated grief affects Zambian orphans (105.7Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 223 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This brief uncovered some interesting findings on grief – data here suggests that a large proportion of children are still experience complex grief two years after their parents have passed away – and that this grief is still so strong it is debilitating.
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  • Zambia Rsch: How parental separation affects Zambian youth (126Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 152 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief focuses on how parental separation affects Zambian children. This has potentially important implications for the many cultures in sub-Saharan Africa where children are traditionally separated from their parents for some period of their childhood.
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  • Zambia Rsch: exploring school drop out among Zambian youth (120.7Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 401 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief explores school drop out among Zambian youth.
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  • Zambia Rsch: Factors mediating depression among vulnerable Zambian youth (261.1Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 148 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief examines the factors that mediate depression among vulnerable Zambian youth. Here we show that by focussing our attention on a small number of community and household factors, our potential for reducing depression in this population is high.
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  • Zambia Rsch: Predictors of depression in Zambian youth (349Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 206 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research lists the factors that can predict depression in Zambian youth. This brief is closely connected to the brief on what mediates depression.
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  • Zambia Rsch: Intervention Exposure (463.7Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 111 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief examines the programme difficulties of retaining young people in a programme over a long period of time.
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  • Zambia Rsch: Poverty Alleviation (150.4Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 118 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief looks at the effects of the economic strengthening programme.
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  • Zambia Rsch: Psychosocial_Interventions (432.8Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 136 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief summarises the effects of the psychosocial components of the intervention
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  • Zambia Rsch: Prevalence of Mental Health Concerns among Zambian youth (313.4Kb)   Uploaded by Lisa Langhaug on January 31, 2012. 177 downloads
    Preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership between REPSSI, the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and ChildFund Zambia are now available.
    Since 2008, 960 children aged between 10 and 18, in a rural area of Kafue, Zambia, participated in five rounds of a very comprehensive survey. The survey was designed to asses the effects of a programme to provide both livelihood support to poor households and psychosocial support to children.
    These briefs provide information around the challenges facing young people living in communities ravaged by HIV, AIDS, and poverty. In particular they highlight the challenges faced by young people living with chronically ill caregivers – a group that can be sometimes ignored as we focus on those who are orphaned.
    This research brief summarizes the prevalence of affective disorders within this population of children and youth.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support: Trainer’s guide for training teachers in conflict and emergency settings (478Kb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 109 downloads
    During times of conflict and emergency, schools and other educational institutions may become an important source of stability and care for children. This guide examines the wealth of materials already available on the subject and provides recommendations on their selection and use in the training of teachers.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support: Trainer’s guide for training health workers in emergency settings (520.8Kb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 130 downloads
    The guide provides trainers, working in emergencies, with a collection of strategically selected materials that they can use to guide them in designing training programs filled with knowledge and skills to prepare health workers to integrate psychosocial and mental health support into health care.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support within the education sector (1.8Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 740 downloads
    Schools are ideally placed to address the psychosocial needs of many children. Through increasing their (schools) focus on psychosocial support they may become caring environments where all children are encouraged to reach their full potential as human beings. These guidelines provide practical steps to mainstream psychosocial support into your school community.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support within paediatric HIV and AIDS treatment (2.1Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 93 downloads
    The psychosocial aspects of paediatric HIV treatment are very closely linked to the biomedical ones. Adherence, treatment literacy, disclosure and stigma are all irrevocably linked to treatment outcomes. With regard to paediatric HIV treatment nothing could be more important than an integration of psychosocial and biomedical issues and approaches. This comprehensive package is designed for health care workers to mainstream psychosocial support into Paediatric HIV treatment focusing on the wellbeing of the child.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support into home based care programmes (1.6Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 386 downloads
    HBC programmes focus on supporting vulnerable families living with HIV and AIDS within their home environment. This means that HBC programmes are often ideally suited to addressing the holistic needs of vulnerable children and their caregivers. These guidelines help you fulfil the vision of a home-based care programme that has mainstreamed psychosocial support into its various activities
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support within food and nutrition programmes (1.5Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 269 downloads
    These guidelines provide practical steps to mainstream psychosocial support and care into your food or nutrition programme. It is about addressing the social and emotional needs of children while offering nutritional support.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support: Facilitating community support structures (1.2Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 84 downloads
    This guide presents practical information shared by Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation (TPO) Uganda about its lessons learned along with descriptions of actual community-oriented interventions to inform them in their design and implementation of psychosocial and mental health support in the aftermath of emergencies.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support into economic strengthening programmes (1.7Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 415 downloads
    Communities may be vulnerable because of economic hardships and poverty, the impact of HIV and AIDS, natural disasters or the effects of conflict and war. Economic strengthening (ES) programmes focus on supporting vulnerable communities to access skills and/or resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. These guidelines provide practical steps to mainstream psychosocial support into your economic strengthening programme.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support within early childhood development (1.9Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 634 downloads
    Programmes and centres focusing on early childhood development are extremely valuable in addressing the holistic needs of children and their families. Such programmes and centres are especially important in times of adversity, such as HIV and AIDS, poverty, conflict. Early childhood development centres may become centres of care and support which not only provide educational enrichment, nutrition, healthcare and safety, but also help children and their caregivers to grow a sense of self-worth, participation, social connectedness and full enjoyment of life. Mainstreaming psychosocial support (PSS) into early childhood development programmes tries to build on the notion of holistic care to support the full development of the child.
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  • Mainstreaming psychosocial care and support through child participation (2Mb)   Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on April 1, 2011. 106 downloads
    Participation is one of the key principles of psychosocial support. Indeed it could be argued that, to some extent, they are two sides of a coin. It is through getting involved that children: 1) enhance their resilience and decrease their vulnerability; 2) discover and develop their talents; 3) discover and enhance their own strengths; 4) are able to overcome many of their psychosocial challenges. These guidelines provide practical steps to mainstream psychosocial support through child participation.
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