From exception to the norm: how mental health interventions have become part and parcel of the humanitarian response.

What it found

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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7. Community based sociotherapy for depressive symptomatology of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda (CoSTAR): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023
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8. Ten years of tracking mental health in refugee primary health care settings: an updated analysis of data from UNHCR's Health Information System (2009-2018).BMC medicine · 2022
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10. A Naturalistic Evaluation of Group Integrative Adapt Therapy (IAT-G) with Rohingya Refugees During the Emergency Phase of a Mass Humanitarian Crisis in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.EClinicalMedicine · 2021
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11. Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis.Frontiers in public health · 2021
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12. Testing a Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Intervention Approach for Addressing Unhealthy Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Humanitarian Settings: Protocol of the Ukuundapwa Chapamo Randomised Controlled Trial.Intervention (Amstelveen, Netherlands)
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Abstract

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