Author: Dr Alcinda Honwana
UNHCR.(1998).Refugee children:Guidelines on
protection and care.Geneva:UNHCR.

This discussion guide examines non-western concepts of mental health, specifically from Mozambique and Angola.It looks at the ways in which mental health and illness can be understood outside the framework of western biomedical paradigms.It…[Read more]

IFRC and Red Crescent Societies, 2003
Principal author: Lise Flindt Simonsen, Psychological Support Officer, International Federation
Co-author: Gilbert Reyes, Disaster Mental Health Institute, University of South
Dakota, USA

Critical events, such as disasters, conflicts, wars, accidents and health epidemics bring with them social and…[Read more]

This training manual focuses on the skills required by humanitarian workers in order to communicate effectively in the challenging situations in which we work. Its aims are twofold: to improve the quality of our working relationships, and to enhance our effectiveness as helpers. It concentrates on skills of particular significance to humanitarian…[Read more]

This module is intended to lay a basis for understanding both the usefulness and potential problems in current thinking with regard to developing and implementing psychosocial programs for children and youth in complex emergency settings. It is not intended to provide the “truth” in the form of recipes that can be applied across situations and…[Read more]

This module is intended to lay a basis for understanding both the usefulness and potential problems in current thinking with regard to developing and implementing psychosocial programs for children and youth in complex emergency settings. It is not intended to provide the “truth” in the form of recipes that can be applied across situations and…[Read more]

This contains a 30-hour psychosocial training module and associated resources to facilitate the training of humanitarian assistance workers in response to the psychosocial needs of refugees.The module is targeting the development of critical competences in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of psychosocial programmes.