<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Below is a call for contributors which might be of interest to list subscribers.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All good wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yael<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Pieter Ventevogel <<a href="mailto:ventevog@UNHCR.ORG" class="">ventevog@UNHCR.ORG</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Request to contribute to a review on 'Culture, Context, Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Refugees from the African Great Lakes Area'</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 15, 2017 at 11:34:02 AM GMT-5<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:TCPSYCH@LISTS.MCGILL.CA" class="">TCPSYCH@LISTS.MCGILL.CA</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Pieter Ventevogel <<a href="mailto:ventevog@UNHCR.ORG" class="">ventevog@UNHCR.ORG</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear</font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="">List serve</font><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">UNHCR (the Refugee Agency of the United Nations) invited a group of experts to work on a review on 'Culture, Context, and Mental health’ of refugees from three countries of the African Great Lakes
region: Burundi, Rwanda and Eastern DRC. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">The document aims to inform mental health professionals, community workers and humanitarian aid workers working with refugees from Burundi, Rwanda or DRC, about the cultural and local understandings
of mental health and wellbeing, including coping, cultural concepts, traditional and spiritual healing, and health seeking behaviour, of people originating from this region.</font></p>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">A better understanding of the local context and cultural concepts of patients may improve clinical encounters and contribute to the development of more adequate interventions of people that were exposed
to collective violence and forced displacement.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Two experts with considerable research experience in the region</font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> are leading the process.: Mrs H</span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">enny
Slegh, psychotherapist and medical anthropologist, and Mrs Suzan Song, child psychiatrist and global mental health expert. As a first step they have started, with a group of </font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" class="">mainly African authors, to make a first draft.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">They would like to be in contacts with relevant experts to </font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">participate in the project:</span></p>
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<li class=""><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Mental health professionals, social workers, social scientists who themselves have a migration background from Rwanda, Burundi or eastern DRC; </font></li><li class=""><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Academics who have done clinical or ethnographic research on mental health and psychosocial support in the Great Lakes Area;</font></li><li class=""><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Clinicians with extensive work experience with this group of refugees.</font></li></ol>
<div class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">At this stage we look for</span></div>
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<li class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Names of potential contributors/ reviewers (please send name, affiliation, contact details and a 3-10 lines description of your experience);</span></li><li class=""><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Documents and reports on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in Burundi, DRC, Rwanda and on refugees from that area. This may include publications in peer reviewed journals, but we explicitly also look for
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">other documents such as unpublished research reports, project evaluatuons, case descriptions etc, in English, French or any other language.</font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
If you can help, or know people who could, please contact:</p>
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<li class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class="">Henny Slegh: <a href="mailto:hennyslegh@gmail.com" class="">hennyslegh@gmail.com</a></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" class="">Suzan Song: <a href="mailto:Suzan.song@post.harvard.edu" class="">Suzan.song@post.harvard.edu</a></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
Best regards,</p>
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<div class="">Pieter Ventevogel (Peter)</div>
<div class="">Senior Mental Health Officer</div>
<div class="">Pubic Health Section / DPSM</div>
<div class="">UNHCR </div>
<div class="">Geneva</div>
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