DOI: 10.1097/WTF.0b013e328330b951

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Issn Print: 1571-8883

Publication Date: 2009/07/01


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Since the launch of its first edition in 2000, the Sphere Handbook (Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response) has become a widely recognised tool for improving humanitarian response by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) but also, increasingly, by United Nations agencies, host governments, donor governments and others.
The Sphere Board has decided to revise the Sphere Project Handbook. The new edition is being planned for publication late 2010.
Comments are being encouraged from national and international NGOs, UN agencies, donor, governments (especially those where disaster response frequently takes place), academic institutions and other humanitarian actors.
The current section on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in the Handbook is in the Health Chapter, (pages 291-293, available at: http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,70/Itemid,203). The text consists of four psychological/psychiatric interventions and eight social interventions.
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