Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions

A set of actions developed by trained mental health personnel to reduce human suffering and develop skills for effective coping in complex situations.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST AID (PAP)

Orientaciones metodológicas para la implementación de la guía: “en tiempos de estrés, haz lo que importa” de la OPS/OMS en Colombia

First Psychological Assistance Course - PAP

OPS First Psychological Help Guide 

Training community leaders in PAP

(Pages 27 -36)

Psychological first aid: facilitator's manual for field worker orientation.

Psychosocial care and referral guide for young migrant returnees.

See: chapter 6 "psychological first aid".

Psychological first aid training manual for child care professionals

REESTABLISHMENT OF FAMILY CONTACTS - RCF

Strategy for restoring family links, legal basis.

How to make the protection of family unity and family reunification more effective in situations of human mobility and mixed movements, and in the context of pandemics?

PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORKS

Social networks, social support and health

Social networks: a concept with important implications for community intervention

The power of contact

SELF-HELP GROUPS

A Practical Guide to Mental Health in Disaster Situations

See: Chapter IV. "Group management in disaster situations". 

EMOTION MANAGEMENT AND RESILIENCE

Resilience-building activities manual

Resilient migration: emotional rescue tools for migrant children and adolescents

Mh GAP HUMANITARIAN

Humanitarian mhGAP Intervention Guide

Humanitarian mhGAP intervention course

PSYCHOEDUCATION AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Guide for psychosocial care for migrants in Mesoamerica, IOM, 2018.

See: Activity module, unit 5

The Return to Joy Stories, fables and rhymes - UNICEF 

Return of Joy: psychosocial support to minors who have faced a disaster. 

Theoretical and methodological guide for facilitators

Return to Joy Manual of Playful Therapies for Children - UNICEF

Return to Joy Guidelines for working with children - UNICEF

UNHCR My Trip Diary Tool 

Paths of Light and Shadows: Stories of Migrant Children and Adolescents 

Learning to take care of myself. Pedagogical booklet of activities for self-care and self-protection of children in a mobility situation.

La Travesia Game

The Traveling Book: traveling with you.

STIGMA PREVENTION

Stories of courageous solidarity against xenophobia. Super panas: Primers for teachers

Stories of Courageous Solidarity Against Xenophobia: A Primer for Students

Guide to deconstructing rumors

DOMESTIC AND GENDER VIOLENCE

Methodological guide: program aimed at improving the social and labor participation of immigrant women.

Methodological guide: program aimed at improving the social and labor participation of immigrant women. Participant's guide.

(This is the complement of the methodological guide

Model and Guide for Psychosocial Care Subsector of Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

Remote Psychosocial Care Model.

Model 1

Remote Psychosocial Care Model.

Model 2

 

 

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