'All in good faith?'An ethno-historical analysis of local faith actors' involvement in the delivery of mental health interventions in northern Uganda

E Storer, C Torre - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Faith actors have become increasingly significant in the field of global mental health,
through their inclusion in the delivery of psychosocial support in humanitarian settings. This …

“Think Positive, Save a Life”? Resilience and Mental Health Interventions as Political Abandonment in a Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda

C Torre - Civil Wars, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates the entanglements of resilience-based refugee policies and mental
health interventions in the refugee settlement of Palabek, northern Uganda. I argue that both …

Doing trauma-informed work in a trauma-informed way: understanding difficulties and finding solutions

N Edelman - Health services insights, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Trauma-informed practice (TIP) is expanding as a means of improving patient safety and
engagement. Accordingly, professionals and other stakeholders increasingly come together …

Rejection and resilience: returning from the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda

T Allen, J Atingo, M Parker - Civil Wars, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article focuses on young people who returned from the Lord's Resistance Army in
northern Uganda, mostly as children, over ten years ago. They are, by definition, resilient …

Legacies of humanitarian neglect: long term experiences of children who returned from the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda

M Parker, CA Fergus, C Brown, D Atim, J Ocitti… - Conflict and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Much has been written about the short-term challenges facing children
returning 'home'from rebel fighting groups, but little is known about the longer term day to …

Mental health in conflict settings

P Seidi, D Jaff - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Fiona Charlson and colleagues1 called for a scaling up of mental health interventions in
areas of conflict; however, they did not adequately consider acute limitations in the …

How to care for carers: Psychosocial care for local staff of aid agencies

D Vento, DJ Koch - Disasters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While mental health and psychosocial support receive substantial international attention in
humanitarian aid, the well‐being of local aid agency staff themselves is often overlooked …

Empowering new survivors with old lessons? Insights from the Bosnian war aftermath applied to upcoming Ukrainian post-realities

N Mocnik - Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, media narratives drew
stark parallels with the violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, instigating …

Introduction: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World

A Antic - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2022 - Springer
This issue explores the figure of the child, both real and imagined, and its relationship to the
emergence and evolution of theories of human psyche and psychological trauma in the …

Uprooting, trauma, and confinement: psychiatry in refugee camps, 1945-1993

B Ibrahim - 2021 - theses.gla.ac.uk
This thesis is a history of psychiatry through the lens of refugees, and a history of refugees
through the lens of psychiatry. It explores the history of psychiatry in medical …