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Policy Brief: Stories from the field: Providing MHPSS Support during COVID-19

This briefing is a summary of lessons learnt from experiences of frontline practitioners in the field, who described innovative strategies they put in place to ensure mental health service continuation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Technology

Training, education and capacity building

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Report: Together for Children's Well-being and Learning

A report summary of proceedings, recommendations and best practices in the fields of MHPSS and Education in Emergencies.

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Health promotion

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Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Mental Health for Sustainable Development: A Topic Guide for Development Professionals

This topic guide is a primer for development professionals interested in learning about the basics of key issues in mental health.

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Evaluation

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Policy and legislation

Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Task sharing

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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WHO Resources: World Mental Health Day 2019 - Suicide prevention

The focus of this year’s World Mental Health Day, on 10 October, was suicide prevention. WHO used the opportunity of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September to launch, together with partners, a campaign asking people to prepare to take 40 seconds of action on World Mental Health Day and published a number of materials.

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Evaluation

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Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

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Interventions at the population- and community-levels for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in LMICs

This article and accompanying policy brief identify “best practice” and “good practice” interventions that can feasibly be delivered in low- and middle-income countries, to aid the identification of resource efficiencies and allocation in LMICs.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Policy and legislation

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Training, education and capacity building

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Policy Brief: Mental health for global prosperity

MHIN policy brief prepared for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos 2019.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Humanitarian Hands-on Tool (HHoT)

A smartphone app, HHoT, provides step-by-step guidance on how to implement a disability inclusive emergency response. Launched in 2018 the HHoT app also includes specific guidance on the inclusion of people with psycho-social disabilities.

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Implementation

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Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Task sharing

Technology

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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The global burden of disease attributable to alcohol and drug use in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

This systematic review used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 to calculate global and regional estimates of the prevalence of alcohol, amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine, and opioid dependence, and to estimate global disease burden attributable to alcohol and drug use between 1990 and 2016

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Policy and legislation

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit: Declarations and Recommendations

These resources are outputs from the Global ministerial Mental Health Summit that took place between the 9th and 10th of October in London. While the recommendations are for ministers, the declarations summarise the commitments that were made during the landmark event.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

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WHO Preventing suicide: a community engagement toolkit Pilot version 1.0 (2016)

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for communities to engage in suicide prevention activities, acknowledging the critical role communities can play in preventing suicide.

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Training

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Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Dignity in Mental Health (World Federation for Mental Health)

World Federation for Mental Health 2015 campaign material for this year's World Mental Health Day theme "Dignity in Mental Health".

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Policy and advocacy

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Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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National Mental Health Awareness Campaign in Lebanon - Video

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Policy and advocacy

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Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

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Mental health action plan 2013 - 2020

The action plan recognizes the essential role of mental health in achieving health for all people. It is based on a life-course approach, aims to achieve equity through universal health coverage and stresses the importance of prevention.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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WHO 'Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative' Report

The report provides a global knowledge base on suicide and suicide attempts as well as actionable steps for countries based on their current resources and context to move forward in suicide prevention.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

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WHO Group Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) for Depression

With this new manual, part of WHO’s mhGAP programme, the WHO gives guidance on the use of interpersonal therapy (IPT) using a 8 session group protocol.

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Training

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Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Toolkit for the Integration of Mental Health

This Toolkit aims to support the understanding and implementation of integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings. It clearly outlines the steps for integrated mental health programs, and includes key guidance and resources that strengthen the integration process among non-governmental implementing agencies, donors, and governments. You can also find International Medical Corps' Toolkit within the 'Collaborations' feature on MHIN.

Read more about Toolkit for the Integration of Mental Health

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Linking Mental Health & NCD Priorities

This resource was developed by members of the World Federation for Mental Health, Mental Health Innovation Network and NCD Alliance to support advocacy by global health advocates seeking integration of Mental Health into policy, processes and actions to prevent and control NCDs.

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Policy and advocacy

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Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

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Report: A safe place to shine

This report details how to create opportunities and raise voices of adolescent girls in humanitarian settings.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Policy and legislation

Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Technology

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Helping the Helpers: 50 Resources for Humanitarian Workers

50 resources for wellbeing and effectiveness in the humanitarian sector.

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Health promotion

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Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Understanding & Tackling The Gendered Drivers Of Poor Adolescent Mental Health

A paper written to stimulate discussion about the influence of gender and gender norms on mental health in adolescence.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Partners in Health Curriculum Toolkit

PIH's collection of tools to build community-based systems of mental health care.

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Implementation

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Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Alcohol and the Sustainable Development Goals

This report discusses how alcohol is a major obstacle to achieving 12 out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Policy and legislation

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

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WHO toolkit for the care and support of people affected by Zika

This WHO Toolkit is for the care and support of people affected by the complications associated with Zika virus with the goal of enhancing country preparedness for Zika virus outbreaks.

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Implementation

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Policy and legislation

Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Task sharing

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

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Lancet Health in Humanitarian Crises series

The Lancet’s Health in Humanitarian Crises series focuses on how to improve the effectiveness of health responses in humanitarian crises.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Task sharing

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

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Drug dependence treatment in China: A policy analysis

This IDPC briefing paper provides an analysis of the current drug treatment system in China and offers recommendations for ensuring its effectiveness.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Human rights

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

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Strengthening the Case for Investing in Canada’s Mental Health System: Economic Considerations

This report highlights nine important Canadian studies that underscore the cost offsets of investing in evidence-based approaches.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Depression around the World

A collection of stories from 35 countries providing a range of views on depression in honour of World Health Day 2017.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Policy and legislation

Human rights

Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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Promoting Positive Environments for Women and Girls: Guidelines for Women and Girls Friendly Spaces in South Sudan

Guidelines on how positive environments and spaces for women and girls can best be established and managed in the context of South Sudan.

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Training

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Prevention and promotion

Training, education and capacity building

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Maternal depression and mental health in early childhood: an examination of underlying mechanisms in low-income and middle-income countries

Depression in pregnancy increases the risk of behavioural and emotional problems in children, says a new review published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

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Research summaries and systematic reviews

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Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

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WHO Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy

Guidelines with recommendations to assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder.

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Implementation

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Task sharing

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

Resources

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Region

Disorder

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Population

Policy Brief: Stories from the field: Providing MHPSS Support during COVID-19

Report: Together for Children's Well-being and Learning

Mental Health for Sustainable Development: A Topic Guide for Development Professionals

WHO Resources: World Mental Health Day 2019 - Suicide prevention

Interventions at the population- and community-levels for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in LMICs

Policy Brief: Mental health for global prosperity

Humanitarian Hands-on Tool (HHoT)

The global burden of disease attributable to alcohol and drug use in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit: Declarations and Recommendations

WHO Preventing suicide: a community engagement toolkit Pilot version 1.0 (2016)

Dignity in Mental Health (World Federation for Mental Health)

National Mental Health Awareness Campaign in Lebanon - Video

Mental health action plan 2013 - 2020

WHO 'Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative' Report

WHO Group Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) for Depression

Toolkit for the Integration of Mental Health

Linking Mental Health & NCD Priorities

Report: A safe place to shine

Helping the Helpers: 50 Resources for Humanitarian Workers

Understanding & Tackling The Gendered Drivers Of Poor Adolescent Mental Health

Partners in Health Curriculum Toolkit

Alcohol and the Sustainable Development Goals

WHO toolkit for the care and support of people affected by Zika

Lancet Health in Humanitarian Crises series

Drug dependence treatment in China: A policy analysis

Strengthening the Case for Investing in Canada’s Mental Health System: Economic Considerations

Depression around the World

Promoting Positive Environments for Women and Girls: Guidelines for Women and Girls Friendly Spaces in South Sudan

Maternal depression and mental health in early childhood: an examination of underlying mechanisms in low-income and middle-income countries

WHO Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy

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Disorder

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Population

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