The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Resource Navigator allows users to search a detailed catalog of available evidence-based MHPSS interventions and assessment tools based on resource type, mental health condition addressed, and target populations. Please note, many of these resources are applicable to both service providers and beneficiaries, but some are more explicitly designed for one of these groups as a general category. Using basic filters, a list relevant resources will be generated. By clicking on a specific resource, users will be directed to a page with more details about the selection. This resource navigator may be particularly useful for technical advisors supporting program teams to design, implement, or evaluate health programs that currently have or are seeking to add integrated MHPSS services.
Show more +The resource navigator is not an exhaustive list of all available tools. Even so, users will likely find more than one resource that fits a particular program or setting. Each resource should be evaluated for the context of each unique implementation setting and should be used alongside the 8Cs Model for Collaborative Consultation to ensure resources being considered fulfill the basic requirements across the eight key domains for any MHPSS program. Users should review the original source cited for assessment tools to learn more about who can administer them and how they should and should not be implemented.
To learn more about how to incorporate the resource navigator into the design, implementation, or expansion of MHPSS programming using these tools, please consult the 8Cs Model or reach out to a colleague at FHI 360.
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Outcome: Improve resilience and mental well-being
Outcome: Address mental health issues
Outcome: Protect the mental health of disaster survivors and enhance ability to address needs and concerns
A questionnaire or “screener” meant to be used with individual patients in a clinical setting to screen for, help diagnose, or monitor progress for individual mental health conditions.
Larger packages or broader-reaching resources that describe actions or activities to be implemented. These may be appropriate for individuals, groups, and/or programs.
Feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress. Anxiety can be a symptom or a feeling; it can also be a clinical diagnosis of a mental health condition.
A state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress, typically related to one’s work, that is not managed well. Burnout is considered an occupational phenomenon.
Mental or neuropsychiatric disorders, or disruptive, unusual, or maladaptive behaviors that have been evaluated and diagnosed by a trained medical professional.
A mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.
A sleep disorder, or disordered sleep pattern, characterized by trouble falling and/or staying asleep.
The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy; judging one’s own life positively; generally, “feeling good.”
A normal adaptive response to traumatic or stressful life events that can result in a wide range of distressing symptoms. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) differs from PTS and is a clinical diagnosis.
An individual’s belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.
Deliberate injury to oneself as an emotional coping mechanism, ranging from cutting oneself to suicide. Expressions of self-harm and/or suicidality are usually considered an emergency and should be assessed and managed by a trained professional.
The perception that one is cared for, has assistance available if needed, and that one is part of a supportive social network.
Any type of change to one’s internal or external environment that causes physical, emotional, or psychological strain. “Managing stress” is an effort to return from this state of strain or disturbance to homeostasis or well-being.
Use of a substance (usually drugs or alcohol) in amounts or by methods that are harmful to oneself or others. Substance use disorder (SUD) and addiction are distinct clinical diagnoses.
Lasting biopsychosocial and/or emotional response that often results from experiencing a terrible event such as an accident, crime, military combat, or natural disaster, or a series of chronic traumatic events like persistent abuse or neglect.
Individual who receives program services; an entire group or population may be the recipient of services.
Individual who directly provides services to another individual, group, or population (the “program beneficiary”) through a program.
