Key Websites
1. World Health Organization, Mental Health and Substance Abuse: https://www.who.int/mental_health/publications/en/
2. MHPSS Resources: https://mhpss.net/resources/
3. Inter-Agency Standing Committee for MPHSS: https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/product-categories/mental-health-and-psychosocial-support
4. Psychosocial Working Group: https://www.forcedmigration.org/psychosocial
Guidelines and Toolkits
3. IASC Reference Group Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Assessment Guide
4. Mental Health Interventions in Areas of Mass Violence, A Community-based Approach
5. Emerging Field of MHPSS in Relation to Reparation and Reconciliation
6. WHO/UNHCR Assessing mental health and psychosocial needs and resources Toolkit for humanitarian settings
9. Inter-Agency Guide to Evaluation of Psychosocial Programming in Humanitarian Crises
10. Mainstreaming Psychosocial Care and Support into Economic Strengthening Programmes
Interventions and Studies
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4. Babcock, E. D. (2014). Using Brain Science to Design New Pathways out of Poverty (Rep.). Crittenton Women’s Union.
5. Bannink-Mbazzi, F., & Lorschiedter, A. (2009). Psychosocial support to vulnerable youth in vocational schools in northern Uganda. Intervention, 7(2), 130-137.
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7. Betancourt, T. S., Mcbain, R., Newnham, E. A., Akinsulure-Smith, A. M., Brennan, R. T., Weisz, J. R., & Hansen, N. B. (2014). A Behavioral Intervention for War-Affected Youth in Sierra Leone: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(12), 1288-1297.
8. Betancourt, Theresa S., and David A chambers (2016). “Optimizing an Era of Global Mental Health Implementation Science.” JAMA Psychiatry 73.2:99
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23. Heckman, J. J., Stixrud, J., & Urzua, S. (2006). “The effects of cognitive and noncognitive abilities on labor market outcomes and social behavior.” National Bureau of Economic Research.
24. IASC Reference Group for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. (2010). Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies: What Should Humanitarian Health Actors Know? Geneva, Switzerland.
25. Jalal, C. S., E. A. Frongillo, and A. M. Warren. (2015). "Food Insecurity Mediates the Effect of a Poverty-Alleviation Program on Psychosocial Health among the Ultra-Poor in Bangladesh." Journal of Nutrition 145.8: 1934-941.
26. Judith Bass, Ph.D., Jeannie Annan, Ph.D., Sarah McIvor Murray, M.S.P.H., Debra Kaysen, Ph.D., Shelly Griffiths, M.S.W., Talita Cetinoglu, M.A., Karin Wachter, M.Ed., Laura Murray, Ph.D., and Paul Bolton, M.B., B.S. (2013). Controlled Trial of Psychotherapy for Congolese Survivors of Sexual Violence. N Engl J Med; 368:2182-2191.
27. Key “Soft Skills” that Foster Youth Workforce Success: Toward a Consensus across Fields. USAID, Child Trends, FHI 360, July 2015.
28. Koenen, K. C., Driver, K. L., Oscar-Berman, M., Wolfe, J., Folsom, S., Huang, M. T., & Schlesinger, L. (2001). Measures of prefrontal system dysfunction in posttraumatic stress disorder. Brain and Cognition, 45(1), 64-78.
29. Kumar, Samhita and Willman, Alys. "Healing Invisible Wounds and Rebuilding Livelihoods: Emerging Lessons for Combining Livelihood and Psychosocial Support in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings." Journal of Public Health Policy. Vol. 37. pp32-50. September.
30. Leerlooijer, Joanne N., Arjan Er Bos, Robert Ac Ruiter, Miranda Aj Van Reeuwijk, Liesbeth E. Rijsdijk, Nathan Nshakira, and Gerjo Kok. (2013). "Qualitative Evaluation of the Teenage Mothers Project in Uganda: A Community-based Empowerment Intervention for Unmarried Teenage Mothers." BMC Public Health 13.1: 816.
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32. Mazurana, D. (2014). Livelihoods and War Wounds in Northern Uganda. Lecture presented at At Invisible Wounds: A Practitioners Dialogue at World Bank, Washington D.C.
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