Where is the ‘social’ in researching mental health and psychosocial support?

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 By Tessa Ubels,

 

In response to the social and psychological suffering caused by humanitarian emergencies, aid organisations implement ‘mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)’. However, interestingly enough, academic research in MHPSS tends to only look at individual and psychological outcomes. This blog post outlines what social outcomes can be found in programme documents of aid organisations, and how we can improve the way we research these outcomes.

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Tessa Ubels
PhD candidate at the Anthropology and Development Studies department of Radboud University and affiliated to the Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology.
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