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This guide highlights the need to identify and assist people in meeting their psychosocial needs following a major emergency or disaster. Meeting these psychosocial needs is as important as fulfilling the obvious needs for food, clothing and shelter.
This guide meets the need to train community-based psychosocial workers. It is written for practitioners whose jobs take them into disasters or complex emergencies and for experienced aid workers who focus on psychosocial services. As the awareness of psychosocial aspects is essential in all kinds of emergency assistance the guide can be of substantial value also for staff involved in different parts of relief work.
This is not intended to be a manual in mental health or psychotherapy.
Lutherhjälpen/Church of Sweden, Norwegian Church Aid and Presbyterian Disasters Assistance have produced this guide commissioned by ACT, Action by Churches Together.
This version was updated in May 2005 (1 581 kb).
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