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	EQUIP - Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support World Health Organization WHO, UNICEF (2022) C_WHO Open external link (13) Add to my MEDBOX EQUIP: Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support is a joint WHO/UNICEF project to improve the competence of helpers and the consistency and quality of training and service delivery. The EQUIP platform makes freely available competency assessment tools and e-learning courses to support governments, training institutions, and non-governmental organizations, both in humanitarian and development settings, to train and supervise the workforce to deliver effective psychological support to adults and children. EQUIP enhances training and supervision for improved mental health and psychosocial support services. EQUIP used a consensus-building approach including key stakeholders to develop the evidence-informed competency-based training materials and guidance, as well as the competency assessment tools. These resources have been tested in Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Peru, Uganda and Zambia, with results demonstrating training improvements in groups that used the EQUIP platform. For example, use of EQUIP in Lebanon with children and adolescents led to an increase in mastery of core helping skills compared to standard training approaches Tags: psychosocial support, Capacity Building, e-learning courses, Assessment, quality, Source: https://equipcompetency.org/en-gb
	mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG) training of health-care providers. Training manual World Health Organization, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2022) C_WHO View PDF(25) Download (36) Add to my MEDBOX The mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG) Training of Health-Care Providers manual is designed to guide facilitators in training non-specialist health care providers to manage mental, neurological and substance use conditions in humanitarian emergency settings. The manual covers suggested training schedules, learning objectives, and tips for planning and facilitating the training. It also includes step-by-step training modules for different conditions covered in the mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG) Tags: post-trauma, mental disorders, Training manual, Mental Health, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Story of change in four countries Building capacity for integrating mental health care within health services across humanitarian settings World Health Organization WHO; mGAP (2021) C_WHO View PDF(38) Download (46) Add to my MEDBOX The world is facing an unprecedented range of emergencies. In reaction to these complex adversities, many people experience considerable distress and impairment, and a minority may even go on to develop mental health conditions. Meanwhile, those with pre-existing mental health conditions may experience a worsening of their condition and are at risk of neglect, abandonment, abuse and lack of access to support. Unfortunately, evidence-based mental health care is often extremely limited in humanitarian settings. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG) in 2015. This practical tool supports health-care providers in assessing and offering first-line management of mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) conditions in humanitarian emergency settings. 2 December 2021. The current report, Stories of change from four countries: Building capacity for integrating mental health care within health services across humanitarian settings, describes efforts in four countries to build evidence-based mental health systems in humanitarian emergency settings using the mhGAP-HIG. This report includes three sections, the first describing the importance of scaling up mental health care in emergency contexts, the second outlining case studies (“stories of change”) to scale up the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) programme in four settings and the third describing lessons learned by stakeholders Tags: mental health care, humanitarian settings, Report, Source: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/
	Implementing the mental health Gap Action Programme intervention guide World Health Organization WHO; Eastern Mediterranean Region (2021) C_WHO View PDF(13) Download (24) Add to my MEDBOX A job aid for non-specialist health professionals Tags: Mental Health, mgap, action plan, Source: https://applications.emro.who.int/docs/9
	Enhancing mental health pre-service training with the mhGAP Intervention Guide: experiences and lessons learned World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(35) Download (44) Add to my MEDBOX This document was designed to inform educators, amongst others, about enhancing the pre-service curriculum with mental health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) materials, which can provide future professionals with the theoretical and clinical knowledge they need to provide mental health in non-specialized health care settings Tags: Mental Health, Lessons learned, mhGAP, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Group Problem Managment Plus(GROUP PM+) World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(18) Download (74) Add to my MEDBOX Group psychological help for adults impaired by distress in communities exposed to adversity With this manual, the World Health Organization (WHO) is responding to requests from colleagues around the world for a group version of the manual Problem Management Plus (PM+), which was developed for adults impaired by distress in communities who are exposed to adversity. Aspects of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) have been changed to make them feasible in communities that do not have many specialists. To ensure maximum use, the intervention is developed in such a way that it can help people with depression, anxiety and stress, whether or not exposure to adversity has caused these problems. It can be applied to improve aspects of mental health and psychosocial well-being no matter how severe people’s problems are Tags: Mental Health, mhGAP, group therapy, Psychotherapy, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	The mhGAP community toolkit: field test version World Health Organization WHO (2019) CC View PDF(0) Download (1) Add to my MEDBOX The mhGAP community toolkit: field test version is an integral part of WHO's Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP), and aims at scaling up services for people with mental health conditions to achieve universal health coverage. The toolkit provides guidance for programme managers on how to identify local mental health needs and tailor community services to match these needs. It offers practical information and necessary tools for community providers to promote mental health, prevent mental health conditions and expand access to mental health services Tags: community health, Mental Health, toolkit, programme managers, promotion, Prevention, health care needs, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Disorders due to substance use World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO View PDF(119) Download (109) Add to my MEDBOX Accessed: 21.03.2019 Tags: drugs, mental health, mental disorders, substance use, Source: https://files.zotero.net/20413428647/Cam
	Module: Disorders due to substance abuse mhGAP World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO View PDF(180) Download (192) Add to my MEDBOX Accessed: 21.03.2019 mhGAP Training Manual for the mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings – version 2.0 (for field testing Tags: drugs, mental health, teaching module, module de formation, mhGAP, substance abuse, Source: www.who.int/mental_health/mhgap/sub_modu
	Disorders due to substance use - mhGAP Training of Health-care Providers Training manual Supporting material World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO View PDF(139) Download (73) Add to my MEDBOX Accessed: 21.03.2019 Tags: mental disorders, substance use, mhGAP training, supporting material, Training manual, drugs, mental health, healthcare, Source: https://www.who.int/mental_health/mhgap/

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