Responsive caregiving in complex emergencies

• Knowledge about the effects of poverty, conflict, and disasters on families, caregivers and children
• Knowledge about the effects of parental distress on children
• Knowledge about the components of nurturing care and how these influence mental health and psychosocial wellbeing
• Knowledge about how responsive caregiving is affected by and influences the other components
• Knowledge about strategic actions to promote nurturing care
• Knowledge about evidence for parenting programmes
• Skills for supporting parents and caregivers in humanitarian emergencies

Alleyne-Green, B., Kulick, A., Grocher, K. B., DeLoach McCutcheon, K. P., & Betancourt, T. S. (2019). The impact of war violence exposure and psychological distress on parenting practices among a sample of young adults affected by war postconflict Sierra Leone. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 25(4), 325.

Betancourt, Theresa S., Ms Sarah E. Meyers-Ohki, Ms Alexandra P. Charrow, and Wietse A. Tol. "Interventions for children affected by war: an ecological perspective on psychosocial support and mental health care." Harvard review of psychiatry 21, no. 2 (2013): 70.

Bornstein, M. H., Kotler, J. A., & Lansford, J. E. (2022). The Future of Parenting Programs: An Introduction. Parenting, 22(3), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2022.2086808

Britto, P. R., Lye, S. J., Proulx, K., Yousafzai, A. K., Matthews, S. G., Vaivada, T., ... & Lancet Early Childhood Development Series Steering Committee. (2017). Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development. The Lancet, 389(10064), 91-102.

Gladstone, M., Phuka, J., Mirdamadi, S., Chidzalo, K., Chitimbe, F., Koenraads, M., & Maleta, K. (2018). The care, stimulation and nutrition of children from 0-2 in Malawi—Perspectives from caregivers; "Who’s holding the baby?". PLOS ONE, 13(6), e0199757. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199757

Hentschel, E., Yousafzai, A. K., & Aboud, F. E. (2021). The Nurturing Care Framework: Indicators for Measuring Responsive Care and Early Learning Activities. https://nurturing-care.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Proposed_indicators.pdf

Jeong, J., Franchett, E. E., Ramos de Oliveira, C. V., Rehmani, K., & Yousafzai, A. K. (2021). Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life: A global systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS medicine, 18(5).

Miller, K. E., Ghalayini, H., Arnous, M., Tossyeh, F., Chen, A., van den Broek, M., ... & Jordans, M. J. (2020). Strengthening parenting in conflict-affected communities: development of the Caregiver Support Intervention. Global Mental Health, 7

Panter-Brick, C., Eggerman, M., Ager, A., Hadfield, K., & Dajani, R. (2020). Measuring the psychosocial, biological, and cognitive signatures of profound stress in humanitarian settings: impacts, challenges, and strategies in the field. Conflict and health, 14(1), 1-7.

Pedersen, G. A., Smallegange, E., Coetzee, A., Hartog, K., Turner, J., Jordans, M. J., & Brown, F. L. (2019). A systematic review of the evidence for family and parenting interventions in low-and middle-income countries: child and youth mental health outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(8).

Participation at the BSRS is credited under the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Participants submitting an essay, in a form of a publishable manuscript of 10-20 pages, after the end of the summer school will receive 10 ECTS. Deadline for submission will be decided by your course leader.

It is also possible to participate without producing an essay. This will give you 5 ECTS. In order to receive credits, we expect full participation in the course-specific modules, plenary events and roundtables.

Ragnhild Dybdahl is associate professor of global mental health at Centre for Crisis Psychology at UiB and programme director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She has more than 20 years of experience from international development collaboration, including research, humanitarian aid, and diplomacy. Her research interests are global mental health, early childhood development and applied psychology.