What is the effect of parental guidance programmes for refugees and families with ethnic minority background?
What is the effect of parental guidance programmes for refugees and families with ethnic minority backgrounds?
Parent-directed measures and family-based interventions play a central role in preventing and treating mental health challenges among children and adolescents, but there is still uncertainty about which approaches are most effective — particularly across different types of difficulties such as behavioural problems, internalising symptoms, and depression. Systematic reviews show mixed results and highlight the need for a better understanding of which components drive positive outcomes, how interventions affect both children and families, and how they can be implemented and scaled without losing effectiveness in practice.
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Former Kavli Trust Chair Appointed Knight of the Order of St. Olav
Former Chair of the Kavli Trust, Supreme Court lawyer Pål W. Lorentzen, has been appointed Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav.
Mental health support for refugee children
Can group conversations be a crucial first step in addressing post-traumatic stress (PTSD) in refugee children?
Foundations – a force we must put to use now
Exclusion. Mental ill health. Climate crisis. Rising inequality. We live in a time defined by complex challenges – challenges that demand more than one solution, more than one actor, and more than one approach. In the face of all this, there is a resource that remains underutilised: foundations.
Compounding impact by sharing knowledge
Facilitating knowledge sharing between recipients of grants from the Programme on Health Research is a priority to Kavli Trust.