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Psychosocial Support and Protection Training: Ethiopian Red Cross Society Danish Red Cross
Psychosocial Support and Protection Training: Ethiopian Red Cross Society Danish Red Cross
Psychosocial Support and Protection Training: Ethiopian Red Cross Society Danish Red Cross
INTRODUCTION
SESSION 1
THE RESILIENCE PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG MEN · DAY 1
INTRODUCTION
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OBJECTIVES
PRE-TEST
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WHAT IS PSS?
SESSION 3
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Exercise
WHAT IS PSS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h0L6u68tbI
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Psycho- Social/
logical cultural
Feelings Traditions
Emotions Values
Thoughts Upbringing
Beliefs Relationships
Perceptions Family
Behavior Community
HELLENIC RED CROSS - LESVOS · DECEMBER 2017
WHAT IS PSS?
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines:
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COMMUNITY-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT · MODULE 1
Work in pairs.
Discuss the following questions:
• Think of a crisis event in your community
that has taken place in the past three years.
• What were the characteristics of the event?
• What factors made it a crisis situation?
• What factors increased the psychosocial
impact of the event?
COMMUNITY-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT · MODULE 1
1. Characteristics of
the event
2. Crisis/post-crisis
environment
3. Individual
characteristics
4. Family and
community
resources
COMMUNITY-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT · MODULE 1
Personal experiences
Advantages of volunteers
Matching needs
COMMUNITY-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT · MODULE 1
Recap
Psychosocial interventions
Psychosocial interventions do not arise from an initial premise
of need, illness or deficiency of individual children, but build
upon a child’s natural resilience and family
and community support mechanisms, examine possible risk
and protective factors and
attempt to provide additional experiences that will promote
coping and positive
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Cont..
Intervention pyramid
Intervention
pyramid for
mental health and
psychosocial
support in
emergencies
IASC PYRAMID
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5 INTERVENTION PRINCIPLES
PROMOTING:
1) a sense of Safety
2) Calming
3) a sense of Self – and Community
Efficacy
4) Connectedness
5) Restore Hope
Hobfoll et al.
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Protective Factors
Cont’d
11.Youth talking together & discovering that they are facing the
same problems
12.Recrational green areas e.g. park, safe space and playgrounds
13. Establish practical rebuilding together
14.Establish schools and recreational activities
15.Helping and supporting one another
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Risk Factors
1. Accessibility/inaccessibility
2. Relocation
3. High level of police arrest
4. Armed soldiers
5. Shooting incidents
6.Demolished houses, Loss of land and livelihoods
7. Limited movement or isolation
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minutes)
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants should:
» Have explored the meaning of the term “PFA”;
» Have a basic understanding of what offering PFA involves;
» Be alerted to the importance of self and team care
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What is PFA?
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants should:
» Know who may benefit from PFA, and who may require more
advanced support;
» Know when PFA can be provided;
» Understand where PFA can be provided safely and with
appropriate dignity and privacy
for the affected person.
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PFA: Who?
• Very distressed people who were recently
exposed to a serious stressful event
• Can be provided to adults and children
• Not everyone who experiences a crisis event
will need or want PFA
– Don’t force help on those who don’t want it, but
make yourself available and easily accessible to
those who may want support
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PFA: When?
PFA: Where?
What is stress?
Types of stress
•Day-to-day stress
•Cumulative stress
•Critical stress
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Types of stress
• Day to day stress: This represents those challenges in life which keep us
alert and on our toes, and without which life for many people becomes
dull and ultimately not worth living.
• Cumulative stress: This occurs when the sources of stress continue over
time and interferes with regular patterns of functioning and daily life.
WAYS OF COPING
Brain storm:
Coping
Coping is a way
to prevent, delay,
avoid or manage
stress
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Coping strategies
Anxiety
Depression
Levels of helping
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SESSION 5
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5 INTERVENTION PRINCIPLES
PROMOTING:
1) a sense of Safety
2) Calming
3) a sense of Self – and Community
Efficacy
4) Connectedness
5) Restore Hope
Hobfoll et al.
THE RESILIENCE PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG MEN · DAY 1
ACTIVE LISTENING
• What is
“active
listening”?
• How do you
do it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrl1T6caUHE
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SESSION 6
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WHY?
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Personal domain
•feeling guilty at the death of someone they were helping
•having idealistic/unrealistic expectations of what a
volunteer can do to help others
•feeling one has to solve all the problems for someone
they are helping
•feeling guilty about paying attention to one’s own need
for rest or support
•facing moral and ethical dilemmas.
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Interpersonal domain
• feeling unsupported by one’s colleagues or
supervisors
• having difficult dynamics within a team
• working with team members who are stressed or
burned out.
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STRESS
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BURNOUT
Burnout is characterized by:
• physical symptoms, such as headaches or sleep difficulties
• behaviour changes, such as risk-taking or abuse of substances
• relational problems, such as temper outbursts or withdrawing
from colleagues
• becoming less efficient at work or having difficulty concentrating
• developing a negative attitude toward the job or organization, or
toward beneficiaries themselves
• emotional distress, such as continuous feelings of sadness,
cynicism and pessimism.
THE RESILIENCE PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG MEN · DAY 1
QUIZ
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PEER SUPPORT
SYMPAYHY VS EMPATHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
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TARGET GROUPS
SESSION 7
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Causes of separation
•Migration
•Disasters – natural or man-made
•Pandemics and epidemics
•Armed conflict and other situations of
violence
•Imprisonment and detention
•The death of a parent or close relative
•Seeking refuge
•Human trafficking.
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Cause of separation
•loss of protection
Unaccompanied minors
fault.
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Secondary separation
Secondary separation
•Take accurate records of all patients on arrival, as far as the situation allows.
•Record all transfers, including departure and arrival points, as well as the
details on individuals transferred and the team performing the transfer.
•Record all deaths, including unidentified persons who have died in medical
facilities, including their place of burial.
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Summary
• Children
• Parents
• Unaccompanied minors
• Men
• Families
• Women
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Ambiguous loss
Ambiguous loss:
•is defined as the absence of a loved one,
where the individual’s situation, location and
condition are unknown.
Grief
Grief
•is a normal psychological reaction to loss of any kind
•is a natural but painful process that allows the affected person to release the pain
associated with what has been lost
•involves a process of acceptance and adjustment, leading to a stabilization of emotion
and routine, and a turning to the future and moving on.
It is important to keep in mind that the objective of the grieving process is not to forget
the missing or deceased person, but to remember him or her in a way that causes less
pain.
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Session 8
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In this activity you will be doing a role play in groups of three people.
Read the scenario and divide the following roles between you:
•a helper
•a person who is separated from a loved one
•an observer.
Use basic helping skills and the pointers given in the previous slide to help support the person
in their uncertainty.
•Spend 10 minutes doing the role play
•Spend 10 minutes answering the questions for feedback
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Reunification
• Re-establishment of contact
• Identity and kinship
• Mutual consent
• Assessment of best interests
• Primacy of safety
• Logistical support
• Authorization of the authorities.
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Do
person.
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Don’t
•Practical support