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Mental health and psychosocial support
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Healing and Recovering Through Education in Emergencies
Humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises currently affect millions of children around the world with serious consequences for their ability to learn, grow and develop. Children are especially vulnerable in conflict situations to “toxic stress”, with
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Caregiving for Children through Conflict and Displacement: A pilot study testing the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a light touch parenting intervention for caregivers in the West Bank
A child’s adjustment to wartime stress is reliant not only on individual responses and qualities, but very significantly on the availability of support that they may receive from their parent or caregivers and quality of relationships. Strengthening paren
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One Year of Transforming Care: An annual report about Save the Children's trauma-informed care programme in Sweden 2018
”One Year of Transforming Care 2018” presents Save the Children Sweden’s work on trauma-informed care, led by the Transforming Care unit, and highlights how it is to educate practitioners in trauma-informed care. Some highlights from 2018 include: The Tra
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Healing the Invisible Wounds of War: A roadmap for addressing the mental health needs of children
The Wilton Park Dialogue, in partnership with Save the Children and the UK Department for International Development, brought together 50 experts in the field of mental health and psychosocial support in January 2018. Together they looked at challenges and
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Operational Guidelines on Community Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings: Three-tiered support for children and families (field test version)
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) is a critical component of the United Nations Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health for 2016-2030. It is also a fundamental part of UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in Hu
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Psychosocial Wellbeing and Socio-Emotional Learning in the Syrian Refugee Response: Challenges and Opportunities
With the growing recognition of the importance of holistic and child focused programming, psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional learning (SEL) programmes are increasing in number in crisis-affected contexts, not least in the humanitarian res
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One Year of Transforming Care: An annual report about Save the Children's trauma-informed care programme in Sweden 2017
”One Year of Transforming Care 2017” presents Save the Children Sweden’s work on trauma-informed care, led by the Transforming Care unit, and highlights how it is to educate practitioners in trauma-informed care. With transforming care, Save the Children
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Handbook on Counselling and Psychosocial Care for Children and Adolescents Living with and Affected by HIV in Africa
The African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS (ANECCA) developed the Handbook on Counselling and Psychosocial Care for Children and Adolescents Living with and Affected by HIV in Africa, with support from the Strengthening High Impact Inte
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Added on Benefits of Structured Peer to Peer Support on Unconditional Cash Transfer: Short-term evidence from a field experiment in Baidoa, Somalia
Approximately a third of the Somali population is affected by some kind of mental disorder; common among them is depression. Prevalence of violence, displacement, unemployment, and drug abuse are among some of the contributing factors. The country’s menta
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Beyond Survival: Seven years of war on Syria's children
In February 2018, World Vision spoke to 1,254 Syrian girls and boys in Southern Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. They talked about their daily lives, their hopes for the future and the things they think about. Their stories included war-induced violence, displa
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Children's Development and Wellbeing E-learning
Children’s Development and Wellbeing is an interactive online training, hosted on DisasterReady, that focuses on the provision of psychosocial support to children, adolescents and youth. Save the Children is grateful to have developed this initiative in c
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Operational Guidelines on Community Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings: Three-tiered support for children and families (An orientation to the field test version)
These modules were created to help practitioners understand how to implement the Operational Guidelines on Community Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings: Three-tiered support for children and families. There are eight m