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Explore key resources—from systematic reviews to policy briefs to training manuals—developed by MHIN or contributed by MHIN members working on real-world projects.

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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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Policy Brief: Young People Will Transform Global Mental Health

Produced by the Young Leaders for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, this Policy Brief embodies the principles of Youth participation and calls policy makers to action with key recommendations to prioritise global action on mental health for young people.
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Policy and advocacy
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Policy and legislation
Human rights
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Rebuilding Lives: MHPSS in Protracted and Post-Conflict Settings

This report is a culmination of the UNICEF and German Government's led mental health expert-level meeting "Rebuilding Lives: Addressing Needs, Scaling-up and Increasing Long-term Structural MHPSS Interventions in Protracted and Post-Conflict Settings"
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Implementation
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Human rights
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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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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Policy Brief: Mental Health and Human Rights

MHIN policy brief prepared for Human Rights Day 2018 observed every year on the 10th of December.
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Policy and advocacy
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Policy and legislation
Human rights
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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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mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG)

WHO and UNHCR present a new guide to mental, neurological and substance use conditions in humanitarian emergencies
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Implementation
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Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources: Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings

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Screening/diagnostic tools
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Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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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
Approach: 
Prevention and promotion
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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IASC: 4Ws in MHPSS Manual

4Ws tools are used in many areas of aid to map activities conducted across large geographical areas.
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Implementation
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Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Building Back Better

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Policy and advocacy
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Policy and legislation
Advocacy
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WHO resources on dementia 2017

For World Alzheimer’s Day 2017, WHO released a new set of resources for different audiences on how to contribute to improving the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families.
Page type: 
Health promotion
Approach: 
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Detection and diagnosis
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.
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Trauma and young people: Moving toward trauma-informed services and systems

The report recommends government, services and young people collaborate to develop better identification, assessment, support and treatment of trauma within mental health systems.
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Policy and advocacy
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Advocacy
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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A blind spot on the global mental health map: A scoping review in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper argues that to date the Global Mental Health community has overlooked an important region of the global North, however, where attention is urgently needed.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
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
Approach: 
Task sharing
Prevention and promotion
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Infographic: Innovations implementing the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide

Infographic of all innovations implementing the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide
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Implementation
Approach: 
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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World Alzheimer Report 2016

The report argues that current dementia healthcare services are over-specialised, and that a rebalancing is required with a more prominent role for primary and community care.
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Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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Out of the Shadows: Making mental health a global development priority

Authored by Seth Mnookin (MIT), this report is a product of almost two years of activities of a Working group chaired by Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University Asia Centre). This report was first presented during the keynote panel of a World Bank Group/ World Health Organization high-level meeting on making mental health a global development priority.
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Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Advocacy
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'Living with a black dog' video

“Living with a black dog” is a guide for partners, carers and sufferers of depression
Page type: 
Health promotion
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
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Domestic Violence and Perinatal Mental Disorders

Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Detection and diagnosis
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Postnatal Depression and its Effects on Child Development: A Review of Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Detection and diagnosis
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