Interventions for children affected by war: an ecological perspective
on psychosocial support and mental health care
In the next months, our project will train caregivers who are Ebola survivors
on psychosocial support for affected children and on predesigned, safe activities that use art and play to therapeutically enhance the quality of life for the children.
Not exact matches
I present
on and teach a broad range of topics and classes; among them stress in adoption, attachment, adjustment,
psychosocial development, core issues, Tweens, Teens & Beyond, infertility to adoption, transracial parenting, becoming parents, trauma, and how to
support the family who has adopted.
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses
on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and
Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men: evidence
supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother
Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence
on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines
on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context of HIV.
Abrams E, Eliminating vertical transmission, Rights here, right now: Slide presentation at XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria ICAP Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV slide set ICAP Video, Saving two lives: Improving retention, adherence & psychsocial
support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the com
support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia
on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and
Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the com
Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the community.
More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding
on a cultural, public health,
psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to
support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.
Returnees will have the opportunity to benefit from reintegration assistance which can consist of counselling, referrals to services including
psychosocial and medical, and other
support as needed and depending
on the services available in the country,» the IOM statement said.
But while research generally
supports the effectiveness of
psychosocial treatments, there are major gaps in the evidence
on their use in conjunction with medications, according to a review and update in the January / February Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
Reviewing approaches to
psychosocial support work in international humanitarian assistance, Zaveri (2011) found that a lack of consensus
on what should be included delayed the insertion of standards
on mental health and psycho - social
support in the earliest Sphere Handbooks published in 1998 and 2000.
Our training covers a wide range of topics from understanding epilepsy, recognising seizure types and seizure management through the
psychosocial implications, effects
on learning and
support strategies for children with epilepsy right through to the administration of emergency medication.
Creates a patient - centered care plan based
on a physical, mental, cognitive,
psychosocial, functional, and environmental (re) assessment and an inventory of resources and
supports.
Introduction Despite the rising trend of cancer prevalence and increase in family caregiving, little attention has been paid to the efficacy of
psychosocial interventions among Asian caregiver samples, particularly
support groups, given the benefits that have been shown in studies
on Western populations.
In addition to her practical experience, Christine has been involved in research focusing
on the early intervention of childhood anxiety, as well as the development of guidelines for
psychosocial support in complex disasters.
Thanks to QFFD's
support, TYO has been able to create and implement a program that will allow women to focus
on how they can improve themselves to also improve their relationship with their children with a focus
on their
psychosocial wellbeing and health.
A Cochrane review of group - based parenting interventions to improve parental
psychosocial health found evidence to
support the use of parenting programmes12 and a separate Cochrane review found some evidence that psychological therapies are beneficial for parents of CSHCN.13 Further evidence covering related issues have also been reviewed, for example, research
on improving or
supporting professional — parent collaborations in managing CSHCN, 5 14 nursing research
on parenting children with complex chronic conditions, 15 the nature of family engagement in interventions for this population16 and the role of interactive media for parental education.17
(See other items
on their agenda here — including Indigenous health, Andrew Forrest and a global Eliminate Cancer Initiative, a national primary care training package regarding family violence, the Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan 2017 - 2022, and plans to provide
support for people with severe mental resulting in
psychosocial disability who are not eligible for the NDIS).
I completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University in the
Psychosocial Treatment Clinic and Bipolar Disorders Clinic focused
on evidence - based approaches to therapy that are
supported by research.
In summary, the literature
on the effectiveness of
psychosocial assessment in office settings indicates that the accuracy of identifying
psychosocial risk factors can be improved by using questionnaires and that there is also some evidence
supporting the validity of home environment and parent - child assessments.
Supported Exercise Improves Controlled Eating and Weight through Its Effects
on Psychosocial Factors: Extending a Systematic Research Program Toward Treatment Development James J Annesi, PhD
The new Empirically Validated Treatment Series is based
on psychosocial treatments for various mental health conditions that are
supported by current scientific research evidence.
New research needs to emphasize
psychosocial approaches to the prevention of depression in high risk women and to the treatment needs of depressed mothers and their families.4, 7,11 Most studies of treatment have focused primarily
on the mother's depression, relying
on medication or individual psychotherapy, 12 rather than
on the mother's needs more broadly, including her relationship with her baby and the role of the father (or other responsible adult) in providing emotional
support and practical help with child care.
[32] The Task Force
on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures of the Division of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association, has established a set of criteria for identifying Empirically
Supported Treatments (ESTs), plus a list of
psychosocial treatments for specific problems or disorders.
The authors wish to thank all the participants and the staff of the University of Montreal Research Unit
on Children's
Psychosocial Maladjustment (GRIP) for their valuable assistance, Dongsha Wang and Marilyne Blain for technical
support, and Charles - Édouard Giguère for helping with the data banks.
Those results
support the usefulness of the ICU in adolescent samples, highlighting the relevance of CU traits in relation to adolescent behavioral and
psychosocial adjustment as well as the role of early parenting practices in, and providing a new international scope
on the topic.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that focuses
on the
psychosocial aspects of therapy, emphasizing the importance of a collaborative relationship,
support for the client, and the development of skills for dealing with highly emotional situations (Psych Central, 2016).
Furthermore, it could be prudent consider the role of other
psychosocial variables
on postpartum depression like social
support perception, global psychological distress of partners, marital satisfaction, etc..
Changes in
psychosocial function include increasing reliance
on peers for intimacy and social
support and decreasing time spent with parents [1].