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The Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Children who have been Commercially Sexually Exploited - A Training Guide (599.4Kb)
ECPAT International
This guide for trainers has been written as a response to the many requests received at ECPAT International for advice and assistance in training carers to look after children who have been commercially sexually exploited. Often carers find themselves in the position of having to fulfill many of the childs needs, and take on many roles, sometimes with few resources and little formal training.
Throughout the material the focus is on helping trainers not only pass on information, but also on helping carers consider how they can put that knowledge into practice in their daily work. The aim has been to make the training useful to carers. In addition, it is hoped that some sections of the document will be helpful to refer to when making presentations or proposals to funders or policy makers.
Assessment and Evaluation of Psychosocial Programming for Crisis-Affected Children: A Good Practice Initiative (554.5Kb)
April 2006 - UNICEF
This paper reviews existing concepts, methods and tools used by UN agencies, humanitarian organizations and academic researchers for assessing children’s psychosocial wellbeing and evaluating subsequent interventions. It highlights examples of best practice and makes recommendations regarding some basic principles and minimum standards for working with children. It is designed to promote sharing of lessons learned and a cross-fertilization of assessment and evaluation strategies. This paper should be considered a “working document” insofar as we hope that its dissemination among colleagues in the field and at headquarters will provide critical review and further input from a variety of disciplines, cultural settings and regional perspectives.- ASSESSING AFGHAN CHILDREN’S PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING: A MULTI-MODAL STUDY OF INTERVENTION OUTCOMES (162.7Kb)
Research Conducted By
Christian Children’s Fund, Oxford University, & Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
The purpose of this research project was to strengthen our ability to answer the fundamental question: Do community-based psychosocial interventions work? The research focused on war-affected children because children typically comprise half the population of war-affected people and are underserved, even invisible, in many emergencies. Also, the burdens of war frequently fall disproportionately on children (Machel, 2001). The research had two main objectives. The first was to determine the efficacy of a community-based psychosocial program using a quasi experimental design that attempted to isolate intervention outcomes from those attributable to other variables. The second objective was to develop and field-test innovative measures of psychosocial well-being and child protection that use qualitative and quantitative approaches, are locally grounded, and reflect the importance of social ecologies in children’s well-being (Dawes & Donald, 2000). - Working with Children (ARC) (365.2Kb)
Action for the Rights of Children (ARC)
This resource pack is intended to provide an introduction to the skills of working effectively with children: it does not aim to provide comprehensive training. It is strongly recommended that personnel who have a regular need to communicate with children, and particularly those who regularly work with distressed children should seek more specialised training in this field. - Approche des enfants traumatises par la guerre (notre experience) (170.1Kb)
Association des Volontaires pour le Service International
GIOVANNI GALLI , ANNE DEVREUX
'' Pourquoi est ce que les gens ne s'entendent pas alors que nous sommes tous enfants de Dieu ?
Pourquoi font- ils la guerre ?
Pourquoi se disputent-ils?
Pourquoi est-ce que l'o-n ne s'entend pas avec nos amis, alors que nous sommes enfants de Dieu ?
Nous sommes une unique sainte famille , parce que le Seigneur nous veut tous unis et ensemble. - Personal reflections Collection Reference List (18.6Kb)
This collection puts a special emphasis on professionals in the field of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) and the way they reflect and review their own role in relation to (past) experiences.
At this moment the list contains 8 articles, discussing personal reflections that have been published in Intervention since 2003.
- Call for personal reflections from field workers! (24.3Kb)
Inspired by the previous contributions in this collection, we would like to invite you, as a fieldworker, to write an article on your personal reflections: tell us about your experiences and personal perspectives on the MHPSS field! - Children in an urban world (4Mb)
State of the World's Children UNICEF 2012
http://www.unicef.org/sowc/files/SOWC_2012-Main_Report_EN_21Dec2011.pdf - Developing a Profiling Methodology for Displaced People in Urban Areas (1.1Mb)
Final Report by Karen Jacobsen and Rebecca Furst Nichols for Tufts University - Protection - An ALNAP guide for humanitarian agencies (631.4Kb)
How can people at risk in war and disaster be better protected? And what
practical role can humanitarian agencies and their staff play in helping to bring about such protection on the ground? This guide aims to provide some answers to these questions, and is intended as a practical guide for field staff in humanitarian agencies. - CIDS Help Now campaign (457.6Kb)
CIDS is a non-political, informal group of individuals that are committing some of their time, energy and private/professional networks to mobilise humanitarian support for displaced Syrians in Jordan.
For more information: facebook.com/CIDS.JO - 03 May UNHCR Registration Trends for Syrians (75.3Kb)
UNHCR Registration Trends for Syrians, March 2011 – 03 May 2012. Published by UNHCR Jordan. 
Book reviews in Intervention (52Kb)
Overview of book reviews published in Intervention Journal (2003-2012).- Training of Trainers on Psychological First Aid (PFA) – Application Form (123.5Kb)
Training of Trainers on Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Crisis Events in
Sri Lanka: 14th – 17th June 2012 (Sinhala) and 7th-10th July 2012 (Tamil) in Batticaloa
Please refer ‘Training of Trainers on Psychological First Aid (PFA) – Call for Applications’ which is uploaded to this group separately, for further information regarding the training. - Training of Trainers on Psychological First Aid (PFA) – Call for Applications (149Kb)
Training of Trainers on Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Crisis Events in
Sri Lanka: 14th – 17th June 2012 (Sinhala) and 7th-10th July 2012 (Tamil) in Batticaloa
Applications are invited for a Training of Trainers programme on
“Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Crisis Events in Sri Lanka”. This
training is designed to equip participants to deliver training in
Psychological First Aid in Sinhala or Tamil to a wide spectrum of
potential responders to large and small scale crisis events in community
settings. The training content is based on the international field guide
published by WHO, War-Trauma Foundation and World Vision International in 2011, which is currently being translated and adapted for use in Sri Lanka
by The Good Practice Group, in collaboration with World Vision Australia.
This programme is relevant for trainers of emergency workers, humanitarian
personnel, health and education staff, community workers and community
members.
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an evidence-supported approach for
immediate post-crisis psychosocial care, recommended by the IASC
Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency
Settings (2007), the current Sphere Guidelines (2011) and the WHO Mental
Health GAP Intervention Guide (2010). PFA covers both social and
psychological support and involves the provision of humane, supportive and
practical help to people suffering from serious crisis events. It is the
expert-recommended alternative to immediate psychological therapies -
which are not supported by available evidence to be appropriate in an
acute crisis.
This is the detailed call for applications, which provides
background information to the training process and its contents. An application form for prospective participants is uploaded separately.
There are only 30 places available (15 in each language group) and
applications will be processed on a ‘rolling’ basis. Therefore please do
encourage interested candidates to apply as early as possible to avoid
disappointment. Applications close on 18th May 2012.
For further information, please contact Gayathri Jayasooriya: 0777-574826
/ gayathri@goodpracticegroup.org .
- Discussion guide 4: Non-western concepts of mental health (321.6Kb)
Author: Dr Alcinda Honwana
UNHCR.(1998).Refugee children:Guidelines on
protection and care.Geneva:UNHCR.
This discussion guide examines non-western concepts of mental health, specifically from Mozambique and Angola.It looks at the ways in which mental health and illness can be understood outside the framework of western biomedical paradigms.It discusses how mental health is understood by local people,how it relates to war and other social crises,and what kinds of therapeutic strategies people use to deal with the social and emotional problems caused by deep social crisis. - Inter-Agency sit rep for Syrians in Jordan 24 - 30 April 2012 (412.3Kb)
A record was set in April with the highest monthly number registered in the history of UNHCR’s operations in Jordan. A total of 7,362 Syrian refugees were registered in April bringing the totalnumber of Syrians registered to some 14,000 since the beginning of the unrest in March 2011. Another 2,600 Syrians have appointments.
• The number of Syrian children attending public schools in Jordan has reached 5,500. These children are supported by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education.
• UNICEF partner ACTED has purchased new water tanks for Cyber City site, and begun plumbing works to connect them to the building to provide drinking water.The cleaning of the septic tanks and desludging was completed by UNHCR partner JHAS.
• Second geographic coordination meeting took place at Ramtha during reporting period, attended by UN partners, local government officials and local NGO’s.Coordination meetings were also rolled out to Mafraq, Ma’an and Karak.
• UN agencies are preparing a CERF submission due to continued inflow of Syrians.
• Political change in Jordan during reporting period with the Prime Minster Awn Khasawneh submitting his resignation, and King Abdullah II tasking Dr. Fayez Tarawneh to form a new government. - MHPSS Training Coordination. April 2012 (83.2Kb)
- Discussion guide 3: Understanding the psychosocial needs of refugee children and adolescents (331.3Kb)
Author-Margaret McCallin
This paper assesses the psychosocial model with reference to displaced and war-affected children and adolescents.The author reviews critical issues and special needs arising from children’s experiences, and discusses how psychosocial programming can meet these needs.The paper mainly assumes a child rights based approach, but it also gives an overview of the child development based approach. Throughout the paper the author poses a number of ‘tasks’ to the reader, which are intended to broaden the student’s understanding of the needs that refugee children and adolescents, as a distinct group, present.
- Discussion guide 4: Non-western concepts of mental health (321.6Kb)
Dr Alcinda Honwana, 1998 (UNHCR)
This discussion guide examines non-western concepts of mental health, specifically from Mozambique and Angola.It looks at the ways in which mental health and illness can be understood outside the framework of western biomedical paradigms.It discusses how mental health is understood by local people,how it relates to war and other social crises,and what kinds of therapeutic strategies people use to deal with the social and emotional problems caused by deep social crisis.
