Scalable psychological interventions for people affected by adversity

A. Schafer, M. Harper-Shehadeh, K. Carswell, E. van’t Hof, J. Hall, A. Malik, T. Au, M. van Ommeren
05
July
2018
Output type
Journal article
Location
Uganda
Focus areas
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)
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Humanitarian Research
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There is a need to improve mental health outcomes in humanitarian settings. This includes strengthening community, family and other psychosocial support mechanisms, as well as improving access to psychological interventions. This paper provides a rationale for developing scalable psychological interventions and describes the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s work to encourage training of nonspecialist mental health care workers to deliver evidence based psychological interventions.

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