IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

August 12, 2010 in Miscellaneous

The IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and co-ordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency. The Guidelines offer essential advice on how to facilitate an integrated approach to address the most urgent mental health and psychosocial issues in emergency situations. Action sheets cover all sectors of humanitarian response work and are broken down in the following sections: matrix of Interventions, Co-ordination; Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation; Protection and Human Rights Standards; Human Resources; Community Mobilisation and Support; Health Services; Education; Dissemination of Information; Food Security and Nutrition; Shelter and Site Planning and Water and Sanitation.

Find the full guidelines document here:
IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support In Emergency Settings (1.1m)

Or the Checklist for field use here:
IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support In Emergency Settings- CHECKLIST FOR FIELD USE (725.6k)

4 responses to IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

  1. Is there a particular purpose for having a field for a Website here?

    • if the user has a website like a company or personal website, the link will be accesible if clicking on the user’s name in the comment

  2. per adua ad astra (or something like that)

  3. is there any particular training for guidelines?

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