Disaster Recovery: Community-Based Psychosocial Support in the Aftermath

ISBN-13: 9781774630716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 360 str.

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

Opis

This new volume provides a wealth of realistic and applicable information for addressing mental health related issues resulting from disasters. It provides readers with both a theoretical and practical look at community-based psychosocial support and community consultation from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book uses case study methodol

Spis treści

Theoretical Building Blocks for Community-Based Psychosocial Support. Historical Overview of Recent Policy Statements, Guidance and Agreements Pertaining to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support. Components of Community-Based Psychosocial Support in Sri Lanka: Planning, Implementing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Community Resilience Project. Psychosocial Support in South and South East Asia: From the Gujarat Earthquake to the Tsunami. Development of a Linguistically Appropriate Instrument in Two States in India. Historical Overview of Psychosocial Support Program Response to the 2004 South Asia Tsunami. CBPSS (Community-Based Psychosocial Support) as Process and Tool for Protection of the Vulnerable Survivors of Disaster. Implementation of Community-Based Psychosocial Support in South Asia. Psychosocial Support as a Priority in Ebola Response: Structured Interventions in Accordance with IASC-MHPSS Guidelines. The First Psychosocial Procedures in Zenie: Ebola Response in Guinea. Safe Schools as a Psychosocial Support Tool for Addressing Threats. Psychosocial Support and Epidemic Control Interface: A Case Study. Psychosocial Support in Communities: A Review of Evidence-Informed Practice.

O autorze

Joseph O. Prewitt Díaz, PhD, is a practitioner scholar who has been doing field work and writing about psychosocial support in communities since 1998 in the Caribbean, the Americas, and South Asia, and has designed and implement the a community-based psychological support program in South Asia that served 732,000 people and trained over 22,000 interventors. He has authored or co-authored eight books in Spanish and English on psychosocial support and over 40 referred journal articles. His work was recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) by being awarded the International Humanitarian Award in 2008 for assisting in the design and preparation of international guidelines and standards, rapid response, training of staff, program management and implementation, and monitoring of psychosocial support on behalf of the American Red Cross (ARC) in South Asia. He served as the ARC Senior Technical Advisor for Psychosocial Support to the 2005. He is currently serving as a Psychosocial Technical Expert with the IFRC Psychosocial Support Reference Center in Copenhagen, Denmark and the IFRC Americas Region integrating psychosocial support into component the Zika epidemic response.

His previous books include Advances in Disaster Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (2007) and Disaster Mental Health in India (2004).