Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use
Our work involves mental health promotion and the prevention of mental, neurological and substance use disorders. We support the expansion of access to affordable, quality care for everyone who needs it.
Child and adolescent mental disorders
Evidence-based recommendations for management of child and adolescent mental disorders in non-specialized health settings
- Maternal mental health interventions to improve child development
- Interventions for preventing child abuse
- Effective strategies for detecting maltreatment of children and youth within the context of mental health and developmental assessment
- Interventions for management of children with intellectual disabilities
- Community based rehabilitation (CBR)
- Psychosocial interventions for treatment of behavioural disorders
- Psychosocial interventions, treatment of emotional disorders.
- Caregiver skills training for the management of developmental disorders
- Pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions for children with ADHD
- Pharmacological interventions for children with Disruptive Behaviour Disorders or Conduct Disorder or Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Pharmacological intervention for disorders of bodily distress in children and adolescents
- Antidepressants (Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCA), Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI)) in children 6-12 years of age with depressive episode/disorder
- Antidepressants among adolescents with moderate-severe depressive disorder for whom psychosocial interventions have proven ineffective
- Pharmacological interventions for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
- Behaviour change techniques for promoting mental health
- Community-based rehabilitation for adults with developmental disorders including intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders
- Interventions (apart from caregiver skills training) by non-specialists at primary and secondary health care level to improve development, wellbeing, functioning and participation in children, adolescents and youth with developmental delays and disabilities
- Psychosocial interventions for promotion of mention health and prevention of mental health conditions in children
Related health topics
Publications
24 June 2019
mhGAP Intervention Guide - Version 2.0
This is the second version (2016) of the mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in non-specialist...
1 January 2008
mhGAP Mental Health Gap Action Programme
Mental, neurological and substance use disorders are highly prevalent and burdensome globally. The gap between what is urgently needed and what is available...