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Discussion guide 4: Non-western concepts of mental health (321.6Kb) Uploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on 5/7/2012 in Materials
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.- Community Based Psychological Support Training (2Mb) Uploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on 3/27/2012 in Materials
IFRC and Red Crescent Societies, 2003
Principal author: Lise Flindt Simonsen, Psychological Support Officer, International Federation
Co-author: Gilbert Reyes, Disaster Mental Health Institute, University of South
Dakota, USA
Critical events, such as disasters, conflicts, wars, accidents and health epidemics bring with them social and psychological consequences that often undermine people’s ability to carry on with their lives. Traditional approaches to disaster and emergency assistance have often neglected the psychological impact of crises on affected populations.
This training manual builds on the experience of psychological support gathered in many different critical events over the last decade by National Societies, and covers more recently developed technical areas as well as recommended methodologies. The manual contains information on the skills and techniques required to provide the kind of support which helps people function under the extraordinary level of stress found in most disaster or critical event situations.
- Communication & Helping Skills for Aid Workers (325.1Kb) Uploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on 8/15/2011 in Materials
This training manual focuses on the skills required by humanitarian workers in order to communicate effectively in the challenging situations in which we work. Its aims are twofold: to improve the quality of our working relationships, and to enhance our effectiveness as helpers. It concentrates on skills of particular significance to humanitarian workers operating in situations of conflict or post-conflict. It is written in an interactive style, with participative exercises, and can be used both by a training group
or by individuals applying the processes to their specific work environments. 
PSS Programs for Children and Youth in Complex Emergencies (163.5Kb) Uploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on 8/15/2011 in Materials
This module is intended to lay a basis for understanding both the usefulness and potential problems in current thinking with regard to developing and implementing psychosocial programs for children and youth in complex emergency settings. It is not intended to provide the “truth” in the form of recipes that can be applied across situations and across cultures without thought. Rather, the intent is to offer principles that can be discussed and amended, so that their application will be unique to the people involved, the situation, the time, and the available resources. Most important, it is intended to invite an attitude of positive psychosocial intervention that offers hope and possible futures for the beneficiaries and for the psychosocial workers. - PSS Programs for Children and Youth in Complex Emergencies (163.5Kb) Uploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on 8/15/2011 in Materials
This module is intended to lay a basis for understanding both the usefulness and potential problems in current thinking with regard to developing and implementing psychosocial programs for children and youth in complex emergency settings. It is not intended to provide the “truth” in the form of recipes that can be applied across situations and across cultures without thought. Rather, the intent is to offer principles that can be discussed and amended, so that their application will be unique to the people involved, the situation, the time, and the available resources. Most important, it is intended to invite an attitude of positive psychosocial intervention that offers hope and possible futures for the beneficiaries and for the psychosocial workers. - 30hr Aid Wkers PSS Train Guide-01 Intro (211.6Kb) Uploaded by Chathuri Jayasooriyya on 8/15/2011 in Materials
This contains a 30-hour psychosocial training module and associated resources to facilitate the training of humanitarian assistance workers in response to the psychosocial needs of refugees.The module is targeting the development of critical competences in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of psychosocial programmes. - Working with Children (365.2Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- Community Based Psychological Support (2Mb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- Disaster Psychosocial Response (578.9Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- Overall Impact of Emergencies on PS Wellbeing (172.5Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- PS Care & Support - Training Module - Somalia (828Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- Training Manual for Community Volunteer Counsellors (1Mb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- Emotional Wellbeing of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (1.2Mb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- PSS Training for Communities in Emergency Situations (355.5Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- Child Protection in Emergencies Training and Resource CD (121.5Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- PS Care & Protection for Children in Armed Conflict (881.5Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- PSS Programs for Children & Youth in Complex Emergencies (161.5Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
Psychosocial Internal Training & Orientation - UNICEF Indonesia (239Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials- Training Counsellors in Areas of Armed Conflict (1.2Mb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
- PSS Training for Children in Emergency Situations (183Kb) Uploaded by Brighton Gwezera on 3/31/2011 in Materials
