Guidelines and Guidance Research Priorities for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings
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1 Global Health Initiative, MacMillan Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 2 HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Sangath, Goa, India, 4 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5 Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6 Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda, and Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 7 Good Practice Group, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8 Colombo University, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9 Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 10 School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 11 Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, 12 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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تاریخ انتشار 2011