Our Recommendations
- IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Checklist (2008)
- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies: What Should Humanitarian Health Actors Know? (2010)
- Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources Toolkit For Humanitarian Settings (2012)
- Practical Guide to Mental Health Problems (2014)
- IASC Guidelines for mental health and psychosocial support in emergency settings (2007)
New Publications
- The Impact of Explosive Weapons in Ukraine – Focus on hard-to-reach areas (2024)
- Societal Healing Programme in Rwanda - Programme Intervention Protocols: Reinforcing community capacity for social cohesion and reconciliation through societal trauma healing in Rwanda (2023)
- Ukraine – Russia crisis and its impacts on the mental health of Ukrainian young people during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
- Mental health in emergencies 2022 (2022)
- Traumasensibler und empowernder Umgang mit Geflüchteten - Ein Praxisleitfaden (2022)
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Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources Toolkit For Humanitarian Settings
recommended
Available in different languages: English, French, Arabic, Russian
Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover the following areas coordination assessment monitoring and evaluation protection and human rights standards human resources community mobilisation and support health services education dissemination of i...
IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Checklist
recommended
Armed conflicts and natural disasters cause significant psychological and social suffering to affected populations. The psychological and social impacts of emergencies may be acute in the short term, but they can also undermine the long-term mental health and psychosocial well-being of the affected ...
This document is for humanitarian health actors working at national and sub-national level in countries facing humanitarian emergencies. It applies to Health Cluster partners, including governmental and non-governmental health service providers.
Based on the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psy...
The nature of humanitarian work has also drastically changed over the last
decade. Humanitarian workers have paid dearly in the face of violence and
terrorism. Burn out and after-effects of traumatic experiences constitute a
major risk for humanitarian workers. After ten years of experience with ...
Guidelines for good practice
The Guidelines are organized around eight key Principles corresponding to the course of a staff member’s contract. The accompanying diagram represents the principles visually. Each principle has supporting Indicators and Comments and Case Studies designed to assist th...
Psychosoziale Arbeit und psychosoziale Ansätze haben in den letzten 10 Jahren in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit (IZ) immer stärkere Verbreitung gefunden. Es gibt heute kein Krisen- und Konfliktgebiet mehr, wo nicht auch über Trauma und über die emotionale Verfasstheit der Opfer gesprochen wi...
Primary care visits may be a time that refugee families express concerns about their child’s functioning at home or school and/or providers may identify concerns about emotional or behavioral health. Most refugee children have experienced trauma which may affect their emotional, behavioral, and ph...
Руководство МПК по психическому здоровью и психосоциальной поддержке в условиях чрезвычайной ситуации
recommended
Межведомственный постоянный комитет (МПК) подготовил данное Руководство с целью оказания помощи гуманитарным организациямв планировании, осуществлении и коорди...
Objetivo:
el presente folleto describe el impacto que
tiene el estrés sobre las organizaciones humanitarias y
sobre sus trabajadores, además de establecer
estrategias para reducir las consecuencias adversas que
se derivan del mismo.
Beneficios:datos recogidos en varios entornos de trabajo su...
В данном документе обобщается нынешняя позиция Департамента психического здоровья и зависимости от психоактивных веществ по вопросу оказания помощи тем людям, к...
This guide focuses on the evaluation of psychosocial programs that are aligned with two main goals: - To promote psychosocial wellbeing by promoting an environment that provides appropriate care, opportunities for development and protects children from exposure to situations that are harmful to thei...
Pschyologische Erste Hilfe. Handbuch
recommended
Diese Publikation wurde im 2011 unter dem Titel „Psychological first aid: Guide for field
workers“ von der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) herausgegeben.
A community-based approach.
These guidelines focus on manmade rather than natural disasters, but our experiences in India, El Salvador and Pakistan (earthquake interventions), and following the 2004 tsunami, cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010, showed that the principles describ...
War and natural disaster result in millions of families and children witnessing or being victims
of unthinkable atrocities. Save the Children is working to minimize the harm children
experience during and after an emergency. It is working to ensure children are protected
from participating in arm...
