MHPSS for young adolescents in vulnerable communities in Lebanon The STRENGTHS project is researching different psychosocial support programs for Syrian refugees. STRENGTHS partner War Child is testing the Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) program which is focused on children and adolescents. Originally meant as a child version of PM+, EASE was developed following a [...]
Problem Management Plus (PM+): WHOs scalable psychological programmes for psychological distress in humanitarian settings (Half Day) Barbara Kieft and Naser Morina facilitate a workshop at ESTSS 2019 To bridge the gap between the need for mental health care and the limited number of mental health care specialists in low and middle income countries, the World [...]
Open access article describing the development of the mobile mental health intervention of STRENGTHS called Step-by-Step: Burchert, Sebastian, Mohammed Salem Alkneme, Martha Bird, Kenneth Carswell, Pim Cuijpers, Pernille Hansen, Eva Heim et al. "User-centered app adaptation of a low-intensity e-mental health intervention for Syrian refugees." Frontiers in Psychiatry 9 (2018): 663. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00663/abstract
Several STRENGTHS collaborators were involved in new publications that are relevant for the project: Mobile Angebote für Geflüchtete. PiD-Psychotherapie Article available in German only, describing E-Mental Health as an approach to support persons in areas with little access to mental health care. It also explains two projects regarding the WHO intervention “Step-by-Step”: a WHO and [...]
Several STRENGTHS collaborators were involved in new publications that are relevant for the project: Le, L., Morina, N., Schnyder, U., Schick, M., Bryant, R. A., & Nickerson, A. (2018). The effects of perceived torture controllability on symptom severity of posttraumatic stress, depression and anger in refugees and asylum seekers: A path analysis. Psychiatry research, 264, 143-150. [...]
In a series of short vidoes researchers in the STRENGTHS project explain the variuous methodologies and sub components of the research in the project. Cultural adaptation of scalable interventions Before the PM+ interventions are tested with Syrian refugees across the Middle East and Europe, they need to be translated and adapted to fit the culture [...]
Rapid appraisal of health systems A total of 13 million Syrians have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Syria. The majority has found refuge in neighbouring countries, while countries in Europe also accepted large numbers of Syrian refugees. Refugees are often vulnerable to psychosocial distress because of exposure to war and violence, traumatic events [...]