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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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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
Approach: 
Task sharing
Technology
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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PPE For Your Mind: A Frontliner's Field Guide to Mental Health

PPE For Your Mind is specifically made to help make mental health healthier for all frontline workers and first responders.
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Training
Approach: 
Advocacy
Training, education and capacity building
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Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Briefing note on addressing mental health and psychosocial aspects of COVID-19 Outbreak- Version 1.5 by IASC.
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Health promotion
Approach: 
Advocacy
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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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
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
Prevention and promotion
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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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
Approach: 
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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MHIN Research Summary: Psychological Treatments for the World

A MHIN summary for the systematic review entitled 'Psychological Treatments for the World: Lessons from Low- and Middle-Income Countries' (Singla et al., 2017).
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Task sharing
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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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
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Task sharing
Prevention and promotion
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
Approach: 
Advocacy
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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.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
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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WHO Report: Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders

This booklet provides latest available estimates of the prevalence of depression and other common mental disorders at the global and regional level.
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Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Empowerment and service user involvement
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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Psychological interventions for PTSD in people living with HIV in resource poor settings

A systematic review on interventions for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in people living with HIV from resource-poor settings.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
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WHO: Epilepsy, Treat it, Defeat it

Over 50 million people around the world suffer from epilepsy. This video seeks to address some of the misconceptions surrounding this disease, explaining how it is caused, where the burden is highest and the challenges faced by people with epilepsy and their families.
Page type: 
Implementation
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
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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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'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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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Worldwide: Evidence for Action

Review of evidence on prevalence, risk and protective factors, and prevention and treatment of child and adolescent mental health problems in LMIC.
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Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Advocacy
Prevention and promotion
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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Non-Specialist Health Worker Interventions for the Care of Mental, Neurological and Substance Abuse Disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Cochrane review assessing the effect of mental health care interventions in primary and community settings by non-specialised health workers in LMIC.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Task sharing
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Interventions for Common Perinatal Mental Disorders in Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Systematic review of RCTs in LMIC assessing the benefit of interventions delivered by non-specialist workers for mothers and children.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Task sharing
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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