Self-Help Plus (SH+): A New WHO Stress Management Package

This new intervention is intended to be relevant for coping with any type of adversity, including gender‐based violence, armed conflict and displacement

Abstract

Consistent with its recommendations for stress management interventions1, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a new psychological intervention for managing stress and coping with adversity. This new intervention is intended to be relevant for coping with any type of adversity, including chronic poverty, endemic community and gender‐based violence, long‐term armed conflict, and displacement. It is especially targeted towards places with enormous needs but limited humanitarian access, such as Syria and South Sudan.

This research was supported by the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme

Citation

Epping-Jordan, J. E., Harris, R., Brown, F. L., Carswell, K., Foley, C., García-Moreno, C., Kogan, C., & van Ommeren, M. (2016). Self-Help Plus (SH+): a new WHO stress management package. World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 15(3), 295–296. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20355

Self-Help Plus (SH+): A New WHO Stress Management Package

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Published 1 October 2016