Psychological First Aid Guides. Community Mobilisation and Support. Protection and Human Rights Standards. Staff Care and Support. Monitoring and Evaluation Tools. This guide covers psychological first aid which involves humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events. It is written for people in a position to help others who have experienced an extremely distressing event. It gives a framework for supporting people in ways that respect their dignity, culture and abilities.
Despite its name, psychological first aid covers both social and psychological support. This report presents the findings using an integrated psychological and anthropological framework that is instrumental in understanding MHPSS needs, and how to devise culturally-appropriate MHPSS interventions in Ebola-affected areas. Author : r. Emilie Medeiros, Dr. David M. Orr and Jasmine Van Deventer. This guidance has been developed to provide practical support to those involved in planning humanitarian programming who seek to be more sensitive to the faith perspectives and resources of the communities within which they are working.
It focuses particularly on the programming area of MHPSS, but in a manner that seeks to provide pointers for more faith sensitive humanitarian programming. The mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide contains first-line management recommendations for mental, neurological and substance use conditions for non-specialist health-care providers in humanitarian emergencies where access to specialists and treatment options is limited.
It also specifically focuses upon Mental Health conditions arising in humanitarian emergencies. This new mhGAP module on Conditions Specifically Related to Stress contains assessment and management advice related to acute stress, post-traumatic stress and grief in non-specialized health settings. The framework can be used in development contexts, humanitarian contexts and within the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
This operational framework emphasizes engaging actors in the health, social welfare and child protection and education sectors at all levels of society to design, implement and evaluate MHPSS strategies that are locally relevant, comprehensive and sustainable.
