Mental health during COVID-19

Advocacy and key messages

These key messages provide a multisectoral action plan to protect and ensure essential services, including mental health services, for young children and...

COVID-19 is disrupting mental health services in various countries. This news story highlights findings from a survey of 130 countries that provides the...

adolescent mental health video

COVID-19 has highlighted the need to invest in mental health as a priority. Children similar to other vulnerable groups are also at risk for mental health...

This Policy brief provides governments and stakeholders with practical guidance for an improved understanding of safe and inclusive access to services...

Guidance resources

This guidance includes practical recommendations for decision makers to help keep communities and health workers safe, to sustain essential services at...

The purpose of this guidance document is to provide clear and actionable guidelines for safe operations through prevention, and early detection and control...

This guidance presents key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.Produced...

This document is an annex to the Interim Briefing Note and is meant to support the MHPSS operational response within the various sectors of humanitarian...

This is a comprehensive guidance document to help governments and policy makers in maintaining essential health care services during COVID-19 pandemic....

Children are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully been largely spared from the direct...

Contextualized resources

A child held by his mother in her arms, in Argentina

A description of the concerns from charities and academics regarding child and adolescent mental health and related services during the pandemic and the...

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