Grace Onyango

TL;DR: Group interpersonal psychotherapy was effective for depression symptoms among adolescent girls affected by war and displacement and activity-based intervention improved conduct problem or function scores.

TL;DR: A previously developed rapid ethnographic assessment method is used to explore local perceptions of mental health problems among children and adults from the Acholi ethnic group displaced by the war in northern Uganda and describes several locally defined syndromes.

TL;DR: This approach uses the example of the development of the Acholi psychosocial assessment instrument (APAI), which is designed to assess depression-like, anxiety-like and conduct problems among war-affected adolescents in northern Uganda, to examine the criterion validity of this measure in the absence of a traditional gold standard.

TL;DR: This article reviews the use of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with depressed youth living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in North Uganda.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that blurring the line between psychosocial support and "spiritual support" could lead to promoting speci c religious values to distressed populations, and may even be seen as proselytising of vulnerable groups.