Guidance that may serve mental health care workers involved with refugee children and their families:

Toolkit for assessing health system capacity to manage large influxes of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants
World Health Organization (WHO), 2016.

WPA guidance on mental health and mental health care in migrants
World Psychiatric Association (WPA).

European evidence-based guidelines for diagnostics and treatment of children and adolescents are available online, in English at NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence, UK) 

MOOC video module on Transcultural child & family psychiatry

Marie-Rose Moro (Paris, France) / IACAPAP, 2016.
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Manual for trauma-based psychoeducation for victims of disasters
Stadt Köln / EU Commission, 2008.

Multidisciplinary Guideline
Early psychosocial interventions after disaster, terrorism and other shocking events.
Impact / EU Commission, 2007.

Trauma picturebook for parents and their supporters
Picturebook by Sussanne Stein to help children, parents and their supporters, pointing out what the child needs right now: practical help in everyday life, comforting messages to the parents and possibly the way to a therapy. The picture book was established from the personal contact with refugee families and with the support of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Available in English, German, Arabic and Farsi.
Children for Tomorrow/University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 2015.

 

Helping Children Cope with Stresses of War: A Manual for Parents and Teachers, English edition (144 pages)
Unicef, 1993.

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