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No implementation without cultural adaptation: a process for culturally adapting low-intensity psychological interventions in humanitarian settings.

Camila PereraAlicia Salamanca-SanabriaJoyce Caballero-BernalLya FeldmanMaj HansenMartha BirdPernille HansenCecilie DinesenNana WiedemannFrédérique Vallières
Published in: Conflict and health (2020)
The proposed four-step process offers a useful guide for how to adapt low-intensity psychological intervention within humanitarian settings. Despite some limitations, we show that even when time and resources are scarce it is possible and necessary to culturally adapt psychological interventions. We invite further testing, replication, and improvements to this methodology.
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