This was written by me and published today’s edition of the UK paper The Observer, discussing mental health response to disasters, violence etc

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One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit on Boxing Day 2004. The resulting tsunami devastated huge swaths of the Indian Ocean coastline and left an estimated quarter of a million people dead…[Read more]

Scholarship MSc Global Mental Health in London

King’s College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and advertising three full scholarships – including living expenses – for students from low and middle income countries.

http://www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org/msc

This turns out to be quite an important study about the cognitive and psychosocial effects of community family intervention on children. It’s not an RCT but is very promising.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23312302

“This community-based program, known as Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar (HCB), serves 800 thousand low-income children…[Read more]

An important study on suicide after natural disasters just published in Social Science and Medicine based on research in Japan:

“We find that when the damage caused by natural disasters is extremely large, as in the case of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, suicide rates tend to increase in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and…[Read more]