{"id":684,"date":"2021-12-30T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/?page_id=684"},"modified":"2025-05-26T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T04:58:11","slug":"psycho-social-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/what-are-the-main-services-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees-in-iran\/psycho-social-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Psycho-Social Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or any signs of mental distress, you may benefit from psycho-social support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNHCR Iran provides counseling services through experienced psycho-social counselors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To use this service and get appointments, please contact your nearest UNHCR office<\/a> to be assessed and referred for psycho-social support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNHCR has limited capacity for this counselling service and priority to receive it will be given to highly vulnerable cases. Thanks in advance for your patience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the services provided by UNHCR are free of charge<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are in need of psychosocial counselling or dealing with suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions, you can contact the following numbers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. 123<\/strong>: is the national social emergency line, run by the State Welfare Organization and provides counseling services 24\/7, free of charge ,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 1480<\/strong>: is run by the State Welfare Organization and provides free-of-charge phone psychological and counseling services seven days a week from 8:00-24:00.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. 4030<\/strong>: is run by the Ministry of Health and provides free-of-charge phone psychological and counseling services among counselling on other health-related issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. 1570<\/strong>: run by the Ministry of Education is a specialized helpline for the provision of psychosocial counseling to school students, seven days a week from 8:00-20:00<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. 021 54467000<\/strong>: is a suicide crisis line that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress seven days a week from 14:00-24:00<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    If you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or any signs of mental distress, you may benefit from psycho-social support. UNHCR Iran provides counseling services through experienced psycho-social counselors. To use this service and get appointments, please contact your nearest UNHCR office to be assessed and referred for psycho-social support. UNHCR has limited capacity for this counselling service and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"parent":644,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/listing_page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions\/3394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}