McLean, K. E., Kaiser, B. N., Hagaman, A. K., Wagenaar, B. H., Therosme, T. P., & Kohrt, B. A. (2015). Task sharing in rural Haiti: Qualitative assessment of a brief, structured training with and without apprenticeship supervision for community... Read more
Training
Final version of an English language training manual for MHPSS – meant for both health care staff and those in (community based) protection Read more
Mental Health Issues, Challenges, Services, & the Way Forward in Sri Lanka. Read more
Intervention 9(2). Published in 2011 This article discusses the training of mental health workers whose basic job is with clients that have been seriously affected by armed conflict and/or natural disasters by using ‘helping through talking’, and who have... Read more
These slides (in pdf format) accompany the PFA Facilitator’s Manual for Orienting Field Workers. Read more
Author: Leslie Snider with close consultation with Alison Schafer (World Vision International (WVI)), Mark van Ommeren (World Health Organization) Published by: World Health Organization, 2013 This manual is designed to orient helpers to offer psychological first aid (PFA) to... Read more
A training module in the “Action for the Rights of the Child” series focused on capacity-building exercises for staff addressing child recruitment and use by armed forces or groups. The level is fairly basic and appropriate for less experienced... Read more
Please complete this roster if you are a Trainer willing to go to Haiti to train or available to train teams in countries outside of Haiti who are preparing to go to Haiti. Please send your responses to the... Read more
ABSTRACT: As anthropology turns toward the cultural issues of the 21st century, more and more ethnographic fieldwork is and will continue to be conducted in regions fraught with conflict,instability, and terror. Despite a growing literature that seeks to develop... Read more
World Health Organization, War Trauma Foundation and World Vision International (2011). Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers. WHO: Geneva. "Psychological first aid has been recommended by many international and national expert groups, including the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)... Read more
