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Afet Sonrası Psikososyal Destek
Afet Sonrası Psikososyal Destek
Start date: Dec 31, 2015,
End date: Dec 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Almost every day, some distressing and painful life events like natural and human made disasters, accidents, war, fire, violence towards women/children and woman and child abuse happen all over the world. These incidents affect individuals, families, communities, and societies deeply at national and international levels. People experience financial and psychological damages and losses and witness violence and death. After these incidents, people providing help to those individuals should be supported in order to get back to their normal life, the society should be rebuilt, and social resources should be made functional. People need support in order to make and improve relationships and, so, they need ‘psychosocial support services’. One of the founder members of ‘Union of Post-disaster Psychosocial Services’ is ‘Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association’ (TPCGA).
The TPCGA has carried out psychological first-aid services after disasters and other traumatizing events, psychosocial intervention services, group counseling for traumatized children, school based crisis intervention and some other preventive services. Post-disaster psychosocial support services require qualified field practitioners and special knowledge and skills and, thus, volunteer counselors who work in this field need training including these knowledge and skills.
The aim of this project is to provide a training opportunity for volunteer counselors who will learn more about psychological support services in working with traumatized people after disasters; and to increase the number of volunteer counselors in fields work after disasters through these in-service training activities. The topics that will be needed in psychosocial interventions services after disasters included;
Trauma,
Losses and bereavement,
Bereavement process and recovery from bereavement,
Working with traumatized women, children and people with special needs.
Psychosocial support providers who work with traumatized individuals attend training courses on self-care and help for the helpers. 15 members from different branches of the TPCGA will be selected for the training courses organized in England and Norway. The eligibility criteria for the course attendees will be having undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Counseling and Guidance and working in an institution or a organization. Course attendees will be selected from the members who took part or attended training courses in psychological first aid, trauma work and psychosocial support services after a disaster
The second aim of the project is to have course attendees preparing new training materials and organize training courses on “Post-disaster Psychosocial Services” in their organizations. Our project would have a positive influence at individual, organizational and societal levels as short and long term effects. The first group targeted is professionals who provide psychosocial support services. It is expected that their knowledge and skills about psychological support work after disaster will be increased as a result of the training course. The second group targeted is Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association at organizational level. Another spreading activity planned in this project is to organize training activities following the training courses in different branches of the organization. It is expected that as a result of these training activities, the number of volunteers who have necessary knowledge and skill to do field work after disasters will be increased. The last group targeted in the project is the individuals, families and the society who are affected by the disaster/trauma. Having more voluntary professionals who can provide psychosocial support services after disasters/ trauma would have positive effects on the society. In the long run, though spreading activities and additional training activities, it is expected that awareness about psychosocial services after disasters would be increased.