B. Addressing somatic psychosocial pathologies improving health care

A comprehensive strategy for psychosocial care in Somalia is being finalized.

The United Nations is supporting a community based psychosocial care and support strategy for vulnerable children and their families and is helping to establish a cadre of paraprofessional psychosocial workers.

The importance of psychosocial care in pediatrics , in Turkish J. Pediatrics 18, pp. 65 71, 1976 (with Orhan Öztürk)

Child rights partners have participated in both basic and refresher skills training in the field of psychosocial support and care.

This is particularly the case in a medical culture that generally emphasizes psychiatric interventions rather than health promotion and psychosocial care.

The study also had significant recommendations for improvements in nutrition, non communicable disease care, mental health, staff training, research, disability, cancer prevention and psychosocial support.

UNICEF and its partners provided basic services and psychosocial support to children in interim care centres (ICCs) and drop in centres (DICs) established around the country.

ensures appropriate psychosocial intervention and treatment

World Association for Psychosocial OXFAM Rehabilitation

The parenting programmes supported by UNICEF in some 56 countries tend to focus on psychosocial care and early learning as well as on child health and nutrition.

(a) Strengthen the capacity of families to protect and care for orphans and vulnerable children by prolonging the lives of parents and providing economic, psychosocial and other support

I met psychosocial workers who worked with them.

EXIL (Centre médico psychosocial pour réfugiés) (Brussels) FASIC

There are few efforts currently under way in Somalia that provide psychosocial care and support to marginalized and vulnerable children or to children who are victims of violence, abuse and exploitation.

The opportunities for psychosocial support are almost non existent.

The opportunities for psychosocial support are almost non existent.

Supervisor to research projects regarding severe trauma, health and psychosocial work

These programmes should include psychosocial rehabilitation and programmes for community integration.

IOLAOS PROGRAMME FOR THE PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION OF REFUGEES WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

Additionally, psychosocial health issues present a unique challenge in the region.

By 2010, there must be effective universal access to a continuum of care and treatment (including psychosocial and economic support), as called for in the WHO treatment protocol, to help all living with HIV AIDS.

In 2005 critical activities from the MTP as well as activities from the Emergency Appeals, including psychosocial support, remedial education and additional health care, are included as a lump sum adjustment to the originally approved budget.

The target has also enabled better leveraging of the resources of the United Nations system to help countries to scale up comprehensive national treatment, care and support programmes that include treatment and psychosocial and nutritional support.

I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality.

Their psychosocial well being is just as important as their physical health.

UNICEF also supported 45 psychosocial community supervisors, providing both training and equipment.

28. Psychosocial health issues present a unique challenge in the Semipalatinsk region.

The PMTCT Plus initiative in 12 countries, pioneered by Columbia University with procurement support from UNICEF, aims to demonstrate measures to increase the access of women and families to treatment, health care and psychosocial and legal support.

Other measures include income generating activities, family reunification, psychosocial services and recreational activities.

In 2005, critical activities from the medium term plan, as well as activities from the emergency appeals, including psychosocial support, remedial education and additional health care, are included as a lump sum adjustment to the originally approved regular budget.

UNICEF also supports an initiative aimed at creating an international framework for legislation to protect women and children from commercial sexual exploitation as well as capacity building efforts in the area of psychosocial care and reintegration of child victims.

In the immediate aftermath of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the same inter agency group drafted brief Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in the Tsunami affected Countries and Psychosocial Care and Protection of Tsunami Affected Children Guiding Principles.

Action to build capacities for psychosocial support to affected children and families is also accelerating.

Family therapy with refugee families at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees, University of Oslo, Norway

UNRWA provided psychosocial counselling to nearly 70,000 refugee children during the 2003 2004 school year.

Suddenly we have a handle on the psychosocial well being of whole societies, and that's exciting.

As a result, prevailing strategies applied to psychosocial issues fail to address problems in their entirety.

Targeted psychosocial support should also be offered to those vulnerable groups identified as requiring humanitarian assistance.

(g) Promoting Psychosocial Well being among Children Affected by Armed Conflict and Displacement Principles and Approaches (1996)

In a partnership with the University of Northumbria (Disaster and Development Centre), consultants have studied the psychosocial problems in Darfur and will provide guidance to UNHCR and partner staff to address psychosocial trauma and to strengthen the capacities of the IDP communities.

UNMIS will be required to deliver timely screening, registration, pre discharge orientation, psychosocial counselling, transportation and reinsertion support.

Children who have lived through what no child should ever have to live through need psychosocial affective support.

Psychosocial support and mental health services to women survivors of violence and harmful traditional practices are very limited.

More than 1,100 teachers have been trained to provide psychosocial services to children associated with the fighting forces.