All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

A supportive environment with nurturing caregivers is essential for the healthy development of children. For children who have been exposed to extreme stress, such as humanitarian contexts, the need for strong, healthy, nurturing caregiver relationships may assume even greater importance. The Strong Families programme, a UNODC family skills intervention, is presented as an example of an intervention that aims to bridge this gap of interventions that meet the need for humanitarian and contexts of extreme stress.

The illicit use of amphetamines, the stimulants commonly known as ‘speed’, is linked to a 5-fold heightened risk of psychosis, finds a 10 year study published online in the journal Evidence-Based Mental Health.

ISSUP Chile presented a webinar on Public Policy Research on Drugs.

Twin Rivers Rehab

Mental Health Made Simple

What is Mental Health?

Mental health is a blanket term that refers to our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. Mental health also helps...

The European Web Survey on Drugs collected data between March and April 2021 from people who use drugs, aged 18 or older, living in 21 EU and 9 non-EU countries. During this period the populations in many European countries were...

Summary

People’s attitudes and behaviours about cannabis have shifted since it was legalized in 2018. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has funded research to examine these changes.

As we approach the three-year...

This manual introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organisation, system, or service sector.

The manual provides a definition of trauma and a trauma-informed approach and offers 6 key principles...

Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is based on the evolutionary, functional analysis of basic social motivational systems (e.g., to exist within groups and care for kin) and emotional systems (e.g., to respond to threats, seek out contentment...

This reading list is designed to complement the webinar presented by Lili Lemieux-Cumberlege on trauma, homelessness, and substance use. The presentation explored the subject through a personal, interpersonal, and systemic lens, and...

People who are homeless experience significant physical, mental and social challenges that are linked with poor health and functioning. Rates of substance use issues, mental health difficulties, injury and chronic disease are significantly...