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EQUIP: Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support

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 (NGOs), both in humanitarian and development settings, to train and supervise the workforce to deliver effective psychological support for adults and children.

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Implementation

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Task sharing

Technology

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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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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Gender and drug policy: Exploring global innovative approaches to drug policy and incarceration

This series shares examples of innovative approaches that incorporate a gender perspective and the principles of public health and human rights into drug policy.

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Policy and advocacy

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Policy and legislation

Human rights

Advocacy

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

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MHIN Celebrates World Health Day 2017

A snapshot of MHIN's World Health Day activities and contributions from our community to celebrate World Health Day 2017, with the theme Depression: Let's Talk.

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Policy and advocacy

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Advocacy

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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

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Community management of opioid overdose

These guidelines recommend that people who are likely to witness an opioid overdose, including people who use opioids, and their family and friends should be given access to naloxone and training in its use so that they can respond to opioid overdose in an emergency if a medical response is not available

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Implementation

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Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

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I had a black dog, his name was depression

In collaboration with WHO to mark World Mental Health Day in 2012, writer and illustrator Matthew Johnstone tells the story of overcoming the "black dog of depression"

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Policy and advocacy

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Advocacy

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The Global Crisis of Depression Summary Report

This event looked at the burden of depression as well as a variety of national responses to it, bringing in cross-sector stakeholders as States are trying to tackle a problem that has become a leading cause of illness, in and out of the workplace.

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Policy and advocacy

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Advocacy

Resources

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Disorder

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Population

EQUIP: Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support

Rebuilding Lives: MHPSS in Protracted and Post-Conflict Settings

Gender and drug policy: Exploring global innovative approaches to drug policy and incarceration

MHIN Celebrates World Health Day 2017

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

Community management of opioid overdose

I had a black dog, his name was depression

The Global Crisis of Depression Summary Report