Author : Stuart Carr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134767099
Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way, the authors bring many of the social apsects of development and aid together in one book; from the needs of the Northern donor to the public tensions between Third World host and foreign development agencies.
Author : Gerard A Jacobs
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 012804358X
Community-Based Psychological First Aid: A Practical Guide to Helping Individuals and Communities during Difficult Times presents a practical method for helping those in need in difficult times. No advanced training in psychology is needed to use it. Injuries from disasters, terrorist events, and civil unrest are not just physical. These events also cause psychological trauma that can do lasting damage. Psychological First Aid (PFA) draws on human resilience and aims to reduce stress systems and help those affected recover. It is not professional psychotherapy, and those providing this kind of aid do not need a degree to help. Gerard Jacobs has developed this community-based method of delivering PFA over 20 years and has taught it in over 30 countries. Along with the easy-to-follow method, Jacobs includes examples of how this works in action in different situations, and presents scenarios to practice. Unique in its approach of community engagement to train community members to help each other, this guide is an excellent resource for local emergency managers to engage in whole community emergency management. - Presents a proven method for helping to alleviate the mental health effects of disasters, terrorist attacks, civil unrest, and other community stressors - Offers a community-based model developed and taught by an international expert for over 20 years, requiring no advanced training or education in psychology to use - Provides techniques that are adaptable to individual communities or cultures - Outlines practices for self-care while helping others to prevent burnout - Includes case studies, scenarios, and key terms to help facilitate community training
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789241548618
This manual is designed to orient helpers to offer psychological first aid (PFA) to people following a serious crisis event. PFA involves humane, supportive and practical assistance for people who are distressed, in ways that respect their dignity, culture and abilities. The instructions and materials in this manual are for a half-day orientation (4 hours excluding breaks) to prepare helpers to support people recently affected by very stressful events. If you have more time available for the orientation, extra activities and slides are included in text boxes to deliver a full day orientation (five and a half hours excluding breaks). Where possible, one should organize full day orientations to allow for deeper learning. It is important to adapt the orientation and materials to the local culture, language and context, and to the likely kinds of crisis situations in which your participants would be helping. This facilitator's manual is to be used together with Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers.
Author : Leslie Snider
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789241548205
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.
Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0374139563
Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.
Author : Gemma Houldey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000432556
The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue to trouble organisations and staff. Engaging and insightful, this book illustrates the problematic and unrealistic expectations of aid workers through the archetype of the perfect humanitarian, and considers why burnout is so endemic, yet so rarely acknowledged, within aid organisations. The book provides practical means through which staff and managers can reflect upon and discuss damaging organisational cultures and behaviours, and develop a more inclusive and caring work environment. Drawing on original academic research and interviews with national and international aid workers and development experts, the book proposes a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial agenda in challenging oppressive systems and structures within the sector. With extensive professional experience as an aid worker herself, Gemma Houldey also shares her own struggles with mental health and what she has learned from feminist practices for self- and collective care. Proposing new ways of addressing wellbeing that are sensitive to the multi-faceted personalities and lived experiences of people working on aid and development programmes, The Vulnerable Humanitarian is essential reading both for current aid sector employees and for prospective employees and students.
Author : S. C Carr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1137015225
Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.
Author : Robert C. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521525848
Life, on a day to day basis, is a sequence of emotional states: hope, disappointment, irritation, anger, affection, envy, pride, embarrassment, joy, sadness and many more. We know intuitively that these states express deep things about our character and our view of the world. But what are emotions and why are they so important to us? In one of the most extensive investigations of the emotions ever published, Robert Roberts develops a novel conception of what emotions are and then applies it to a large range of types of emotion and related phenomena. In so doing he lays the foundations for a deeper understanding of our evaluative judgments, our actions, our personal relationships and our fundamental well-being. Aimed principally at philosophers and psychologists, this book will certainly be accessible to readers in other disciplines such as religion and anthropology.
Author : George S. Everly Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1421443996
"Psychological first aid (PFA) is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively with adversity. The second edition of this essential guide describes the principles and practices underpinning the evidence-informed and evidence-based Johns Hopkins RAPID-PFA model in an easy-to-follow, prescriptive, and practical manner"--
Author : Laura Hart
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Emotional problems of teenagers
ISBN : 9780987181923
This Manual is for senior adolescents in years 10 - 12 to assist friends who have mental health problem.
