c/o WHO: Opportunity for recent graduates for LDCs

Appealing to the librarian network to share this great WHO opportunity for recent graduates for LDCs

Dear Colleagues,

This may seem like an odd request but I am counting on you as the global health community who sometimes are the world’s best knowledge connectors. As many of you work with recent graduates who come from varied backgrounds, I would like to make you aware of the WHO’s young professionals (YPs) programme for young professionals (YPs) from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/ldc_list.pdf which aims to engage them in WHO’s work and build their capacity in key public health areas of particular relevance for their countries.

The vacancies of the first cohort are currently open for application until 6 December 2021. The vacancies can be found here:

https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl (please type “YPP” in the key word search to take you directly to the vacancies)

If you know someone who is 35 years old or younger and comes from a Least Developed Country, please ask them to check out WHO’s Young Professionals Programme! During your career, you may have come across some exceptional students from LDC locations who you feel worthy of an opportunity to make a big impact in the global health arena. If you know of anyone, please share this opportunity with them.

I have done this in the past and my colleagues in WHO HR saw star candidates results from the public health networking that got this message out to ideal candidates and they would like to see that success again. For some of you I know this will be a golden opportunity.

If you have any concerns about this posting, please let me know. For potential candidates, please direct them to visit the WHO website above.

Many Many Thanks to you all.

Tomas ALLEN
Professional email allent AT who.int
WHO Library
https://www.who.int/library

WHO COVID Database
https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/

HIFA profile: Tomas Allen is a librarian for the World Health Organization. 

Professional interests: Public Health. tomas.allen.who AT gmail.com

My source: HIFA

Study: Measuring Different Types of Relationship Styles in Psychosis

Division of Psychology and Mental Health
2nd Floor, Zochonis Building
The University of Manchester
Brunswick Street
Manchester
M13 9PL

Participant Information Sheet

Measuring Different Types of Relationship Styles in Psychosis

You are being invited to take part in a research study developing a questionnaire to measure different types of relationship styles in psychosis. Before you decide whether or not you would like to take part in the study, please read the following information carefully so that you can understand what taking part would involve for you. Then click the button at the bottom of the page to continue. If you have any questions or queries about taking part in the study, please contact the principal investigator, Catherine Pollard (catherine.pollard AT postgrad.manchester.ac.uk). You do not have to make a decision straight away, so if you have any doubts or feel unsure please take some time to think it over.

What is the study about?

Our early relationships have been linked to the development of psychosis, a mental health problem that means people interpret things differently from those around them. Psychosis involves experiences such as hallucinations, where a person hears, sees and in some cases feels, smells or tastes things that are not there; or delusions, where a person has strong beliefs that are not shared by others.

When people are young, they develop a sense of how they relate to themselves, others and the world. This includes how others relate to them. Some people grow up seeing their parent/guardian as fearful. Research suggests that when these young people grow up they are more likely to report hearing voices and feel paranoid. However, it is not clear how this happens.

At the moment, it is difficult to understand why these people are more likely to hear voices and feel paranoid. Therefore, more research needs to be done. We aim to develop a questionnaire that measures whether people have grown up feeling scared of their parent/guardian so that we can use this in research to help us understand the link between feeling fearful in early relationships and the development of psychosis.

This study will not directly offer you any benefit, but the study addresses a gap in psychosis research. Our work will help to understand the development of unusual experiences and help us develop more treatments for distressing experiences.

Please CONTINUE READING...

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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SELF beliefs early relationships  lived experiences sensory experiences - hear, see, feel, smell, taste ... hallucinations, delusions psychosis, distress, trauma Confident with	WORLD Involved in major accident antipsychotic medication Diagnosis  Evidence-base Measures
English language OTHERS social environment parent(s), guardian, significant others fear, traumatic loss of other  Therapeutic input: CBT, Psychologist	WORLD Treatment in a Mental Health Unit / Hospital Input from Community Mental Health Team or Early Intervention Service

subjective ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVE

qualitative -------------------------------------------------------------- QUANTITATIVE

My source:
@HearingVoicesUK & @RSInPsychosis
https://twitter.com/HearingVoicesUK/status/1073647206685663232

"Here I Stand" Stories that Speak for Freedom

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ---------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

	"HERE I STAND" 12+

Book cover: Walker Books

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