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Resilience: Conceptualization for Research and Policy

This work draws together work from academia and humanitarian practice and policy, to help define and operationalize resilience.

See policy brief here and abstract here 

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Child and Youth Resilience Scale

We developed and validated the Arabic-language Child and Youth Resilience Measured (CYRM) with Syrian refugee and Jordanian youth.  This study was led by Panter-Brick, Hadfield, Dajani, Eggerman, Ager & Ungar. 

More information here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28617937/.

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Resilience and Mental Health in Afghanistan

Eggerman and Panter-Brick led the first longitudinal survey of child and adolescent mental health in Afghanistan.  This project integrated cross-cultural psychiatric epidemiology with medical anthropology to provide evidence on mental health and resilience across generations. More information here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25384553/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24286507/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21421175/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19699514/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18663740/

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Mental health, psychosocial distress, and stress biomarkers

Sancilio, Eggerman, Rasmussen, Ventevogel, and Panter-Brick compared the extent to which individual stress physiology mapped onto local and international mental health screening instruments.  More information here:

See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27435220/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25034331