Supporting Children, Adolescents, and Families Impacted by Conflict and Forced Displacement
Description
In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Dr. Janna Metzler discusses establishing an evidence-base for programmes used to support children and families impacted by conflict and forced displacement. There is also a discussion on Janna’s recent JCPP paper ‘Improving adolescent mental health and protection in humanitarian settings: longitudinal findings from a multi-arm randomized controlled trial of child-friendly spaces among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda’.
Learning Objectives
1. The challenges of conducting research or trying to implement interventions in conditions of adversity.
2. A definition of child-friendly spaces.
3. How and why the effectiveness of two interventions (Standard psychosocial intervention and a newly developed Toolkit for Child-Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings) varied across different groups.
4. Recommendations for building on the foundation of child-friendly spaces and other interventions that make a difference to refugee children and their families.
5. Additional upcoming projects related to the trial.
6. Suggestions for CAMH professionals and policy makers.