Andrew Riley, Andrea Varner, Peter Ventevogel, M. M. Taimur Hasan et al.
The Rohingya of Myanmar are a severely persecuted minority who form one of the largest groups of stateless people; thousands of them reside in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. There has been little research into the mental health consequences of persecution, war, and other historical trauma...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Andrew Riley, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Courtney Welton‐Mitchell et al.
AIMS: Despite the magnitude and protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee situation, there is limited information on the culture, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of this group. This paper, drawing on a report commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aims to...
Peter Ventevogel, Sadya Tarannum, Mohamed Elshazly, Sandra Harlass
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The greatly increased mental health needs are paired with limited resources for mental health care, particularly human resources. Therefore, UNHCR, the refugee agency of the United Nations, designed a programme to integrate ...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Hau Khat Mung, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Susheela Balasundaram et al.
BACKGROUND: This randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims to compare 6-week posttreatment outcomes of an Integrative Adapt Therapy (IAT) to a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) on common mental health symptoms and adaptive capacity amongst refugees from Myanmar. IAT is grounded on psychotherapeutic e...
Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Mahmuda Mahmuda, Mohamed Elshazly, Sanjida Khan et al.
A main gap in the delivery of mental health and psychosocial (MHPSS) services to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh is the limited coverage of psychotherapeutic interventions. There is a shortage of mental health professionals who can provide culturally adapted and linguisticall...
Mohamed Elshazly, Boris Budosan, Ahsan Alam, NabilaTarannum Khan et al.
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh has been acknowledged as an important component of the humanitarian response. Despite this recognition, MHPSS programmes are still facing many challenges. These challenges are related to the care delivery systems, to ...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Sanjida Khan, Mohammed Mohsin et al.
Background: Studies of scalable psychological interventions in humanitarian setting are usually carried out when the acute emergency has stabilized. We report the first evaluation of an evidence-based group psychological intervention, Group Integrative Adapt Therapy (IAT-G), during the emergency pha...
Mohamed Elshazly, Ahsan Alam, Peter Ventevogel
The areas around Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh are the location of some of the world’s largest and most congested refugee settlements. The refugees have myriads of needs, and hundreds of different organisations provide assistance in an enormously complex and at times chaoti...
Wendy Ager, Rebecca Horn, Muhammad Kamruzzaman Mozumder, Andrew Riley et al.
In this issue, our contributors describe a range of challenges around mental health and psychosocial support in the Rohingya refugee context. They report on coordination and programming at the frontline and reflect on the impact of the response on the Rohingya people themselves and on the humanitari...
Tahmina Parvin, Simon Rosenbaum, Sanem Ozen, Lilian Ewagata et al.
Humanitarian workers are at risk of experiencing emotional distress and mental health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic created additional stress and challenges for staff in ongoing emergencies who had to continue delivering humanitarian assistance. The primary objective of this study was to assess th...
M. Claire Greene, Anja Busse, Peter Ventevogel, Jeremy C. Kane et al.
Recent research demonstrates that implementing evidence-based substance use interventions in humanitarian settings is feasible. Further evidence regarding the effectiveness, scalability and implementation of these interventions, including context-specific priorities, must be generated to ensure they...
Frédérique Vallières, Mohamed B. Elshazly, Jihane Bou Sleiman, Rony Abou Daher et al.
Abstract In 2019, over 168 million people across fifty-three countries were in need of emergency humanitarian relief. In addition to requiring access to basic services, such as health, shelter, water and sanitation, and social protection, many individuals in need of emergency relief are also in need...
Alvin Kuowei Tay, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Sanjida Khan, Mohammed Mohsin et al.