Mental Health
Amel Association International integrates mental health and psychosocial support within primary healthcare, mobile outreach, home-based services, and case management to ensure dignified access to care for crisis-affected communities.
Healing, Resilience, and Dignified Care
In a context marked by economic instability, displacement, trauma, and limited public mental health services, Amel provides inclusive, integrated, and community-based mental health support.
Needs
- High levels of anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress linked to economic instability, crises, and displacement.
- Children and displaced families face repeated trauma, disrupted daily life, and urgent psychosocial needs.
- Lebanon has limited availability of psychiatrists and psychologists, with many services unaffordable or unavailable.
- Structural service gaps, limited public reach, and stigma prevent many people from accessing care.
Programme Approach
Amel combines specialized mental health care, psychosocial support, structured therapy, clinical interventions, case management, support to frontline responders, and evidence-based documentation.
Key Interventions
Inclusive Access to Quality MHPSS
Providing sustained access to integrated mental health and psychosocial support services, including specialized care for trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress-related conditions.
Structured Therapy and Clinical Support
Delivering individual and group therapy sessions, clinical interventions, and case management for crisis-affected populations.
Support for Frontline Responders
Enhancing emotional resilience, preventing burnout, and promoting mental wellbeing among humanitarian workers through psychosocial sessions and individual counseling.
Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
Documenting and analyzing programme outcomes to inform Lebanon’s National Mental Health Programme and strengthen evidence-based strategies across the mental health sector.
Impact
- Increased access to essential mental health services for vulnerable and crisis-affected communities.
- Prevention of deterioration of psychological conditions through early support and referral.
- Strengthened individual coping capacity, emotional resilience, and wellbeing.
- Reinforced community resilience through integrated care and outreach.
- Contribution to long-term stabilization of vulnerable populations.
- Improved continuity of care through integration with primary healthcare and case management.
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