Basic services and security
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1
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Creating safety and protection from harm
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Ager et al. [17]
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Protection outcomes (sense of safety, exual exploitation and rape, physical injuries, referrals, reporting); social and emotional wellbeing
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Low: Program evaluations
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2
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Playing
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Betancourt et al. [14]
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Resilience; wellbeing; self-confidence; emotional regulation
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Low: Case or cross-sectional studies
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Strengthening family and community support
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3
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Community capacity building
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Ager et al. [17]; Peltonen & Punamäki [6]
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Knowledge of protection systems; sense of order and sanity; PTSD; improved psychosocial wellbeing
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Low: Program evaluations
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4
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Increasing social support
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Peltonen & Punamäki [6]
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Resilience; PTSD; improved psychosocial wellbeing
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Low: Program evaluation and clinical experience
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5
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Family and caregiver capacity building
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Jordans, Pigott and Tol [36]
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Ability of caregivers to provide consistent and reliable care; depression; PTSD; anxiety symptoms; hope
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High: Statistical testing of mechanism
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6
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Family and caregiver relationship strengthening.
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Betancourt et al. [14]; Jordans, Pigott and Tol [36]
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Further traumatic experience; psychosocial functioning; mental health; maternal mental health; depression; PTSD; anxiety symptoms; hope
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High: Statistical testing of mechanism
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7
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Engaging with values, traditions, religious and non-religious beliefs, and ideologies
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Betancourt et al. [14]; Tol, Song and Jordans [11]
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Morale and healing; maintaining the right to be alive despite suicidal despair; drive to survive; community and personal restitution; empowerment; reintegration into communities; wellbeing
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Low: Qualitative studies or clinical experience
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Focused non-specialist support
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8
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Learning about the presenting problem, medication, and how to access services (psychoeducation)
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Betancourt et al. [14]
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Medication compliance; access to services; distress
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Moderate: Statistic testing but of intervention not mechanism
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9
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Learning stress management skills
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Peltonen & Punamäki [6]
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PTSD; psychosocial wellbeing
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Moderate: Statistic testing but of intervention not mechanism
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10
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Emotional regulation and bearing negative emotions
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Peltonen & Punamäki [6]
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Chances of survival; resilience
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Low: Program evaluation and clinical experience
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11
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Problem solving
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Jordans, Pigott and Tol [36]
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Depression; PTSD; anxiety symptoms; hope
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High: Statistical testing of mechanism
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12
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Learned helpfulness
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Betancourt et al. [14]
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Helplessness; wellbeing
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Moderate: Statistical testing but of intervention not mechanism
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Specialist support
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13
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Adverse mechanism: Pathologising normal reactions
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Apfel and Simon [1]
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Alienating participants
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Low: Clinical experience
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14
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Trauma processing through narratives, exposure, dreaming or play
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Apfel and Simon [1]; Betancourt et al. [14]; Jordans, Pigott and Tol [36]; Peltonen & Punamäki [6]
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Memory integration; PTSD; depression; PTSD; anxiety symptoms; hope; psychosocial wellbeing
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Moderate: Statistical testing but of intervention not mechanism
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15
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Restructuring unhelpful cognitions and appraisals
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Peltonen & Punamäki [6]
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PTSD; psychosocial wellbeing
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Moderate: Statistical testing but of intervention not mechanism
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16
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Therapeutic rapport
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Jordans, Pigott and Tol. [36]
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PTSD; anxiety symptoms; hope
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High: Statistical testing of mechanism
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