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Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a longitudinal study of risk, protective factors, and mental healthTheresa S Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:606-15. 2010....
Annual Research Review: Mental health and resilience in HIV/AIDS-affected children-- a review of the literature and recommendations for future researchTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 54:423-44. 2013....- Trajectories of internalizing problems in war-affected Sierra Leonean youth: examining conflict and postconflict factorsTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Dev 84:455-70. 2013..Despite the comparative resilience of most war-affected youth in the face of extreme adversity, there remains a compelling need for interventions that address family- and community-level stressors... - Trauma history and psychopathology in war-affected refugee children referred for trauma-related mental health services in the United StatesTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Trauma Stress 25:682-90. 2012..Given the difficulties associated with access to mental health services for refugees, both preventive and community-based interventions within family, school, and peer systems hold particular promise... - Validating the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children in RwandaTheresa Betancourt
Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, François Xavier Bagnoud FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:1284-92. 2012..Although the CES-DC is widely used for depression screening in high-income countries, its validity in low-income and culturally diverse settings, including sub-Saharan Africa, is unknown... - Moderators of treatment effectiveness for war-affected youth with depression in northern UgandaTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 51:544-50. 2012..The current study investigated how gender and history of abduction by Lord's Resistance Army rebels moderated treatment outcomes for war-affected youth... - Connectedness, social support and internalising emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents displaced by the Chechen conflictTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, FXB Building 7th Floor, Room 709D, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Disasters 36:635-55. 2012..Results indicate that family connectedness is an important protective factor requiring further exploration by gender in war-affected adolescents... - Caregiver and adolescent mental health in Ethiopian Kunama refugees participating in an emergency education programTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 51:357-65. 2012..To examine the role of caregiver mental health and risk and protective factors in influencing levels of internalizing and externalizing emotional and behavioral symptoms over time among a sample of refugee adolescents... - Interrelatedness of child health, protection and well-being: an application of the SAFE model in RwandaTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 74:1504-11. 2012..Analysis of this interrelatedness provides a roadmap for improving policies and implementing integrated and robust child protection strategies in Rwanda and other settings... - Nothing can defeat combined hands (Abashize hamwe ntakibananira): protective processes and resilience in Rwandan children and families affected by HIV/AIDSTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 73:693-701. 2011.... - Sierra Leone's child soldiers: war exposures and mental health problems by genderTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 49:21-8. 2011..To examine associations between war experiences, mental health, and gender in a sample of male and female Sierra Leonean former child soldiers... - Understanding locally, culturally, and contextually relevant mental health problems among Rwandan children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDSTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
AIDS Care 23:401-12. 2011.... - Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a follow-up study of psychosocial adjustment and community reintegrationTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Dev 81:1077-95. 2010..Retention in school was also associated with greater prosocial attitudes... - Family-centred approaches to the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIVTheresa S Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA
J Int AIDS Soc 13:S2. 2010..We describe findings and barriers to the delivery of family-centred PMTCT and identify a number of promising new directions that may achieve more holistic services for children and families... 
Child soldiers: reintegration, pathways to recovery, and reflections from the fieldTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Child Health and Human Rights, Department of Population and International Health/Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 29:138-41. 2008- The mental health of children affected by armed conflict: protective processes and pathways to resilienceTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 20:317-28. 2008..Cultural and community influences such as attitudes towards mental health and healing as well as the meaning given to the experience of war itself are also important aspects of the larger social ecology... - Assessing local instrument reliability and validity: a field-based example from northern UgandaTheresa S Betancourt
Dept of Population and International Health, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 44:685-92. 2009..noncases on local syndrome terms was confirmed in the data for all of the three depression-like syndromes, but not for the anxiety-like syndrome ma lwor or the conduct problem kwo maraco... - A qualitative study of mental health problems among children displaced by war in northern UgandaTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Transcult Psychiatry 46:238-56. 2009..The descriptions of these local syndromes were similar to western mood, anxiety and conduct disorders, but included culture-specific elements... - Children affected by HIV/AIDS: SAFE, a model for promoting their security, health, and developmentTheresa S Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Health Med 15:243-65. 2010.... - Past horrors, present struggles: the role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra LeoneTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 70:17-26. 2010..These findings point to the complexity of psychosocial adjustment and community reintegration in these youth and have a number of programmatic and policy implications... - Disease burden and mental health system capacity: WHO Atlas study of 117 low- and middle-income countriesRyan McBain
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Br J Psychiatry 201:444-50. 2012..Studies have yet to examine whether the capacity of mental health systems might be adversely affected by the burdens of unrelated conditions such as HIV/AIDS... - Stressors, supports and the social ecology of displacement: psychosocial dimensions of an emergency education program for Chechen adolescents displaced in Ingushetia, RussiaTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Center for International Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 29:309-40. 2005..The programmatic and policy implications of these findings are presented here... - Psychosocial adjustment and mental health in former child soldiers--systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future researchTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 54:17-36. 2013.... - The role of health systems factors in facilitating access to psychotropic medicines: a cross-sectional analysis of the WHO-AIMS in 63 low- and middle-income countriesRyan McBain
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 9:e1001166. 2012..While access to psychotropic medicines varies substantially across countries, no studies to date have empirically investigated potential health systems factors underlying this issue... - Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among Haitian immigrant students: implications for access to mental health services and educational programmingMary C Smith Fawzi
Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Public Health 9:482. 2009..s... - Multi-tier mental health program for refugee youthB Heidi Ellis
Department of Psychiatry, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 81:129-40. 2013.... - Mental health in postwar afghanistanPaul Bolton
JAMA 292:626-8. 2004