Psychosocial work

At a conference on psychosocial issues in the medico House, experts from eleven countries defended support on a basis of solidarity for people in need. By Usche Merk.

Resilience has become a buzzword in development affairs and a yardstick for funding decisions. In regard to security, climate change, natural disasters and terrorism, resilience is given an increasingly dominant role in crisis management. By Usche Merk.

A critical analysis of the models and diagnoses of trauma on the basis of the work at the SCPS, Johannesburg.

In this traumatised and fragmented country, AHRDO insists that peace has to be based on justice and a voice for all.

The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020 depression will be the second most common illness worldwide.

What should therapy, psychosocial aid and emancipatory psychosocial work look like? How can we make room for attentive relationships that are based on mutual aid and help individuals and groups to refuse the commodification of their illness?

Bisharat, Zaman and Fatima grew up in Pakistan as refugees from their war-torn country. Fortunately for them, they were not educated in one of the Qur'an schools which the Taliban still use to recruit their next generation. When the three returned to...

'Before, I hardly ever talked, today you can hardly stop me,' says Kenneth. He works as a social worker in Managua's poverty districts for a small organisation which helps residents organise themselves. As one of 100 young people, he participated in...

In several important project regions, medico maintains its own offices to coordinate projects and service partnerships. Three office directors describe what they considered the most impressive local events in 2012.

Economisation of life worlds is resulting in increasing mental suffering worldwide. Social problems are often individualised in the process, classified as mental illness and treated with drugs. Emancipatory psychosocial work is a critical challenge to these tendencies. The medico international symposium in May 2012 provided an opportunity for thoughtful discussion.