Do no harm: Challenges in organizing psychosocial support to displaced people in emergency settings

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Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-14

  Wessells, Michael G ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Christian Children's Fund

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMANITARIAN AID; PSYCHOLOGY; REFUGEE; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 45749088992     PISSN: 02295113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.21392     Document Type: Article

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2. Kenneth Miller and Lisa Rasco, "An Ecological Framework for Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Refugee Communities," in The Mental Health of Refugees, ed. K. Miller and L. Rasco (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004);
3. Neil Boothby, Alison Strang, and Michael Wessells, "Introduction," in A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Approaches to Children in War Zones, ed. N. Boothby, A. Strang, and M. Wessells (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian, 2006);
4. Mastair Ager, "Perspectives on the Refugee Experience," in Refugees: Perspectives on the Experience of Forced Migration, ed. Alastair Ager (London: Pinter, 1999);
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11. Nancy Baron, Soeren Buus Jensen, and Joop de Jong, "Refugees and Internally Displaced People," in Trauma Interventions in War and Peace: Prevention, Practice, and Policy, ed. B. Green, M. Friedman, J. de Jong, S. Solomon, T. Keane, J. Fairbank, B. Donelan, and E. Frey-Wouters (New York: Kluwer, 2003);
12. Miller and Rasco, 67-334.
13. Jon Hubbard and Kenneth Miller, "Evaluating Ecological Mental Health Interventions in Refugee Communities," in K. Miller and L. Rasco, 337-374;
14. Joan Duncan and Laura Arntson, Children in Crisis: Good Practices in Evaluating Psychosocial Programming (Westport, CT: Save the Children, 2004).
15. Inter-Agency Standing Committee, IASC Guidance on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (Geneva: IASC, 2007).
16. Mary Anderson, Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - Or War (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999), 1-3;
17. John Prendergast, Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996), 17-42;
18. Carlos Martin Beristain, Humanitarian Aid Work: A Critical Approach (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 96-98.
19. Larry Minear, The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian, 2002), 1-8.
20. Michael Wessells, "Culture, Power, and Community: Intercultural Approaches to Psychosocial Assistance and Healing," in Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss, ed. K. Nader, N. Dubrow, and B. Stamm (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1999), 267-282.
21. Beristain, 110-142.
22. Minear, 75-98.
23. Ibid., 19-36.
24. Duncan and Arntson, 19.
25. Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Growing the Sheltering Tree: Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action, (accessed November 8, 2006).
26. Minear, 55-74;
27. Neil Boothby, "Mobilizing Communities to Meet the Psychosocial Needs of Children in War and Refugee Crises," in R. Apfel and B. Simon, 149-164;
28. Michael Wessells, Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 181-218.
29. Inter-Agency Standing Committee, IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, Action Sheet 5.1, 95.
30. G. Anderson, 8-53;
31. Prendergast, 17-35;
32. Michael Maren, Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity (New York: Free Press, 1997).
33. Prendergast, 20-21.
34. Michael Wessells, "Negotiating the Shrunken Humanitarian Space: Challenges and Options," in Handbook of International Disaster Psychology, vol. 1, ed. G. Reyes and G. lacobs (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006).
35. Deanna Beech, "Peace-Building, Culturally Responsive Means, and Ethical Practices in Humanitarian Psychosocial Interventions," in Reyes and Jacobs, 98-99.
36. Inter-Agency Standing Committee, IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, Action Sheet 4.1.
37. Vanessa Pupavac, "Humanitarian Politics and the Rise of International Disaster Psychology," in Reyes and Jacobs, 15-34;
38. Andy Dawes and Edward Cairns, "The Machel Study: Dilemmas of Cultural Sensitivity and Universal Rights of Children," Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 4, no. 4 (1998): 335-348.
39. Patrick Bracken, "Hidden Agendas: Deconstructing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder," in Rethinking the Trauma of War, ed. P. Bracken and C. Petty (London: Free Association Book, 1998), 38-59;
40. Derek Summerfield, "A Critique of Seven Assumptions behind Psychological Trauma Programmes in War-affected Areas," Social Science and Medicine, 48 (1999): 1449-1462;
41. Wessells, 1999.
42. Alastair Ager, "Toward a Consensus Protocol for Psychosocial Response in Complex Emergencies," in Reyes and Jacobs.
43. Wessells, Child Soldiers, 146-153.
44. Wessells, 1999, 275-280.
45. Beech, 97.
46. Wessells, Child Soldiers, 204-205.