Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Advancing Evidence, Strengthening Resilience
One of the biggest challenges facing victims of torture and those living in emergency contexts is the lack of accessible mental health care and psychosocial support services (MHPSS). We strengthen the evidence base related to MHPSS interventions for use in developing more effective policy and programs.
Our Approach
Learning Collaborative
The MHPSS Learning Collaborative (LC) is a global network of stakeholders working to enhance evidence-informed implementation of MHPSS solutions in low-resource settings. The network seeks to foster joint learning, accelerate data liberation, and advance evidence advocacy and uptake of community-level MHPSS interventions through:
“Such easy access to a professional network of senior researchers tackling similar challenges is rare and very valuable.”
— Heartland Alliance, ISC MHPSS LC Member
Intervention Studies
Resources
- A Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
- Identifying research priorities for psychosocial support programs in humanitarian settings
- What works in psychosocial programming in humanitarian contexts in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the evidence