Annex. WHO resources for mental and substance use disorders

Mental health guidelines

  • Management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders: WHO guidelines (1)
  • WHO Website: WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) (2)
  • mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings: mental health Gap Action Programme - Version 2.0 (3)

Brief biological interventions

  • Problem Management Plus (PM+): Individual psychological help for adults impaired by distress in communities exposed to adversity, WHO generic field-trial version 1.0. (4)
  • Group Problem Management Plus (Group PM+): group psychological help for adults impaired by distress in communities exposed to adversity, Generic field-trial version 1.0. (5)
  • Self-Help Plus (SH+): A group-based stress management course for adults, Generic field-trial version 1.0. (6)
  • Group interpersonal therapy (IPT) for depression (7)
  • Thinking healthy: A manual for psychological management of perinatal depression (8)

Substance use disorders

  • mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings – Version 2.0 (3)
  • The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): manual for use in primary care (9)
  • The ASSIST-linked brief intervention for hazardous and harmful substance use: Manual for use in primary care (10)
  • Self-help strategies for cutting down or stopping substance use: a guide (11)
  • International standards for the treatment of drug use disorders: revised edition incorporating results of fieldtesting (12)
  • Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy (13)
  • WHO guidelines on Community management of opioid overdose (14)
  • Integrating collaborative TB and HIV services within a comprehensive package of care for people who inject drugs: consolidated guidelines (15)

Mental health integration

  • Integrating the response to mental health disorders and other chronic diseases in healthcare systems (16)
  • Framework for collaborative action on tuberculosis and comorbidities (17)

Suicide prevention

  • mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings – Version 2.0 (3)
  • LIVE LIFE: An implementation guide for suicide prevention in countries (18)
  • Preventing suicide: A global imperative (19)

Mental health in emergency settings

  • mhGAP humanitarian intervention guide (mhGAP-HIG): clinical management of mental, neurological and substance use conditions in humanitarian emergencies (20)
  • Building back better: sustainable mental health care after emergencies (21)
  • Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers (22)
  • Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies: What Should Humanitarian Health Actors Know? (23)
  • Assessing mental health and psychosocial needs and resources: toolkit for humanitarian settings (24)

 

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