IC–ADAPT Consortium

The IC–ADAPT Consortium was created to advance ongoing research, development, and testing of the linked models Integrative Complexity (IC) and ADAPT (Adaptation and Development After Persecution and Trauma). This work led to the recent development of a unified and testable analytical framework: CODIA (COping via Differentiating and Integrating to Adapting) (Boyd, Baumann, Silove, DeMarinis, in review).

About the Consortium

Our mission is to deepen theoretical, empirical, and applied understanding of how individuals and communities cope, recover, and adapt in contexts of adversity. The Consortium brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working across mental health, social care, education, public health, and conflict-affected settings.

Highlights of Work Linking IC and ADAPT

ICbility (Sweden)

The ICbility programme is a nine-session experiential course designed by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the Swedish youth organisation Fryshuset.

Its structure integrates IC and ADAPT to strengthen resilience. The programme was externally evaluated by Umeå University, which found positive outcomes and recommended continuation.

More information:

• ICbility overview: https://lnkd.in/e-VHjDj2

• Evaluation report (DeMarinis & Nordendahl, 2025): https://lnkd.in/eJcwMUt

EU H2020 DRIVE Project

A brief pilot intervention linking IC and ADAPT was feasibility-tested in 2023 with ethnic minority and ethnic majority young adults (18–25) in the UK and Norway, as part of the EU-funded H2020 DRIVE project spanning Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK.

IC–ADAPT–SEL Framework

The IC–ADAPT–SEL high-level framework supports social and emotional learning (SEL) within MHPSS systems for refugees, migrants, displaced learners, and other vulnerable groups. It was developed for the UNICEF–Cambridge–Microsoft Learning Passport, now used by more than 10 million learners and educators across 46 countries.

(Boyd-MacMillan & DeMarinis, 2020).

Consortium Co-Founders

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Dr Eolene Boyd

Assistant Research Professor

Programme Co-Director, Integrative Complexity Research

Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

Steering Group Member, Cambridge Public Health

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Professor Valerie DeMarinis

Senior Professor in Public Mental Health, Umeå University, Sweden

Professor in Public Mental Health Promotion, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway

Professor Emerita, Uppsala University, Sweden

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Dr Maria Nordendahl

University Lecturer, General & Family Medicine, Umeå University

Medical Doctor, Region Norrbotten

Clinician, Primary Health Centre (Migrant Care Specialist)

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Professor Derrick Silove

Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge

Professor Emeritus, University of New South Wales, Australia

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Dr Alvin Kuowei Tay

Advisor, United Nations

NHMRC Fellow, University of New South Wales

Visiting Scholar, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Graduate Student: Luma Bashmi

PhD Candidate, King’s College London

Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

Lecturer, RCSI–Bahrain

Co-Founder and Co-Director, eLaa Beirut

Consortium Members

• Dr Patricia Andrews Fearon, Stanford University, USA

• Professor Chris Baumann, Macquarie University, Australia

• Dr Lindsay Branhan, UC Berkeley, USA

• Dr Claire Campbell, Ulster University, UK

• Professor Fei Guo, Macquarie University, Australia

• Professor Roberto Lewis-Fernando, Columbia University, USA

• Associate Professor Louise Lafortune, McMaster University, Canada

• Professor Siobhan O’Neill, Mental Health Champion for Northern Ireland, Ulster University, UK

• Professor Susan Rees, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Dr Daniel Robins, University of Cambridge / University of Oxford, UK

• Dr Liam Saddington, University of Cambridge, UK

• Professor Jagdip Singh, Case Western Reserve University, USA

• Professor Suzan Song, Harvard University, USA

• Dr Timothy Stojanovic, University of St Andrews, UK

• Professor Emeritus Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Professor Wietse Toll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications, Presentations & Reports

Featured Reference

Psychology of Democracy (CUP, 2022)

Chapter 5 (“Cognitive Complexity: Sometimes a Boon and Sometimes a Danger to Democracy”) includes mention of the IC–ADAPT Consortium (p.119).

By Peter Suedfeld; edited by Ashley Weinberg.

Selected Publications

• Mughal R, DeMarinis V, Nordendahl M, Lone H, Phillips V, Boyd-MacMillan E. (2023). Public Mental Health Approaches to Online Radicalisation: An Empty Systematic Review. IJERPH, 20(16):6586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166586

• Boyd-MacMillan, E. & DeMarinis, V. (2020). Learning Passport: Curriculum Framework (IC-ADAPT SEL high-level design). Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment.

• Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment (2020). Learning Passport: Research and Recommendations Report, Section 4 (MHPSS & SEL).

Presentations and Media

• BJPsych Open Podcast (2023)
  
  Silove, Boyd-MacMillan & Kristiansen discuss refugee and asylum mental health.

• Boyd-MacMillan, E. & DeMarinis, V. (2021). Learning Passport – SEL, Climate Change, and IC-ADAPT-SEL. UNICEF Roundtable on Education in Emergencies.

Reports

• Andrews Fearon, P., Boyd-MacMillan, E., DeMarinis, V., Knerich, V. & Nordendahl, M. (2022).
  
  A City-Based Analysis: Social Polarisation and Public Health during COVID-19.
  
  Study integrating IC and ADAPT to analyse public mental health and social division.