Posts tagged psychosocial
COVID-19 in Afghanistan: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Implications
COVID-19 in Afghanistan: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Implications

July 2020

COVID-19 threatens Afghanistan’s many gains, from progress in access to education for children and trust in formal protection mechanisms to social norms around gender and trust in Government. With a healthcare system already stretched to the limits, ongoing conflict and natural disasters, widespread food insecurity and reductions in foreign aid, stakeholders in Afghanistan were already facing a complex and worsening situation. COVID-19 has the potential to disastrously exacerbate this. Samuel Hall is supporting the Afghanistan Protection Cluster (PC) and other stakeholders with this brief to fill in key knowledge gaps around how COVID-19 is understood and perceived and its current and likely implications.

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Resilience, South & Central AsiaSamuel Hallfood insecurity, education, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Protection Cluster, psychosocial
OCHA - February Humanitarian Bulletin
OCHA - February Humanitarian Bulletin

March 2017

Conflict, disasters, and other humanitarian emergencies have broad reaching consequences, but often lost in emergency responses are the psychosocial impacts of these events. Yet such crises can have a detrimental effect on psychosocial wellness, as demonstrated by Samuel Hall research with urban youth in Kabul. Our data shows that the mental health of these youth should absolutely be considered a priority – the time for action is now.

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Resilience, South & Central AsiaSamuel Hallurban youth, Kabul, emergency, mental health, Afghanistan, OCHA, psychosocial, psychosocial wellness, trauma