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Philip Gourevitch’s critique of humanitarian intervention
A must read for anyone involved in, interested in, or even heard of humanitarian interventions in warzones: Philip Gourevitch’s critique of humanitarian aid in the New Yorker. Ostensibly a review of...
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Defining forced migration: Report from the Northwestern University Conference...
The Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR) is in its 8th year, and this year’s topic is Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration. NUCHR is probably the best...
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Psychosocial support in Libya: What it looks like in the first weeks of a crisis
Although barely a few weeks old, the crisis in Libya has already set the NGO world’s psychosocial intervention machine in motion. Appeals and updates from UNICEF, the International Federation of the...
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Article supplement: Posttraumatic idioms of distress among Darfur refugees
The September 2011 issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is out, and it includes an article by myself and some colleagues based on some work we did with Darfur refugees a few years ago. Publication lag...
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The HESPER: WHO’s measurement answer to the problem of identifying needs...
The World Health Organization recently released the Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs Scale (HESPER), a measure that they hope will operationalize the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and...
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More evidence that measuring local concepts of distress matters
The latest issue of Psychological Assessment includes an article by University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral research fellow (and soon to be Manhattan College Assistant Professor) Nuwan Jayawickreme...
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Looking for graduate school applicants for research in forced migration,...
Fall is graduate school application time, as many programs have application deadlines in October, November and December. I have recently moved to Fordham University’s Department of Psychology, and will...
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Refugees, 2013: Changing faces, changing places, changing policies
This week’s Economist has a fine summary of how refugees have grown in number and diversity, and the international community’s response to these changes. Among things to note is the continuing trend...
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Cognitive processing therapy for rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of...
Last week saw the publication of an important randomized control trial of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for Congolese survivors of sexual assault in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM — and...
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One million Syrians in Lebanon: A portrait of daily stressors
The one millionth Syrian refugee in Lebanon was registered recently, and the United States’ National Public Radio commemorated the moment with a illuminating profile of life for Syrian refugees in...
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