Disaster Recovery

Community-Based Psychosocial Support in the Aftermath

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz, Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351592819
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

This new volume, Disaster Recovery: Community-Based Psychosocial Support in the ?Aftermath, provides a wealth of realistic and applicable information for addressing mental health related issues resulting from disasters. It will provide readers with both a theoretical and practical look at community-based psychosocial support and community consultation from an interdisciplinary perspective. The last thirty years have brought to the fore the importance of psychosocial support as an integrator and cross-cutting theme in disaster response. The need for a timely volume on this topic at this time is based on recent world efforts to include the topic within the disaster risk reduction framework.

In this volume, the authors share their practical knowledge about development of community-based psychosocial support based on the hundred of thousands of people in fourteen countries and three continents who provided an immense amount of knowledge about psychosocial support through their participation in programs. These programs helped to lead the way in sharing the strategies and tools presented in here.

This book uses case study methodology and practical examples to share how communities can come together, care for themselves, and use their social capital and problem-solving skills to survive and thrive. The information in the book will aid in the development of program offerings for mental health and psychosocial support in disasters and humanitarian emergencies. The final section will provide the components of a proposal for external work and a chapter on monitoring and evaluation. The book will include case studies to help illustrate the content.

Edited by Dr. Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz, a 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association's International Humanitarian Award, the book is based on his extensive experience and existing research in the field.

The information provided here will be helpful to those working in or teaching on disaster management and support, including professors and instructors, students in social work and psychology, government and non-government agencies personnel in the field in places where emerging conflicts are occurring, and many others.

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Preface

About the Editor

Introduction

PART I: Theoretical Building Blocks and Background

1. Theoretical Building Blocks for Community-Based Psychosocial Support

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz and S. P. Agarwal

2. Historical Overview of Recent Policy Statements, Guidance, and Agreements Pertaining to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

3. Components of Community-Based Psychosocial Support in Sri Lanka: Planning, Implementing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Community Resilience Project

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz and Anjana Dayal de Prewitt

PART II: Development of Community-Based Psychosocial Support After the 2005 East Asia Tsunami

4. Psychosocial Support in South and Southeast Asia: from the Gujarat Earthquake to the Tsunami

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

5. Development of a Linguistically Appropriate Instrument in Two States of India

Satyabrata Dash, Anjana Dayal de Prewitt, and Rashmi Lakshinarayana

6. A Historical Overview of Psychosocial Support Program Response to the 2004 South Asia Tsunami

Anjana Dayal de Prewitt

7. Community-Based Psychosocial Support is a Process and Tool for Protection of the Vulnerable Survivors of Disaster

Subhasis Bhadra

8. Implementation of Community- Based Psychosocial Support in South Asia

Satyabrata Dash

PART III: Current Events That Require Psychosocial Support

9. Psychosocial Support as a Priority in Ebola Response: Structured Interventions in Accordance with Iasc-Mhpss Guidelines

Pramudith D. Rupasinghe

10. The First Psychosocial Procedures in Zenie

Cecilie Alessandri and Jean-Claude Kékoura Zoumanigui

11. Safe School Program as a Psychosocial Support Tool in Addressing Thread

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

12. Psychosocial Support and Epidemic Control Interface: a Case Study

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

13. Psychosocial Support in the Communities: A Review of Evidence Informed Practices

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

14. Hurricane Maria, Personaland Collective Suffering, And Psychosocial Support As A Crosscutting Intervention

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

15. Place-Based Psychosocial Interventions in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

Postlude: Lessons Learned: Route Map for the Future: Psychosocial Support Program Planning and Development

Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz

Index

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Satya Paul Agarwal (in memoriam) was an eminent neurosurgeon, prolific writer, visionary, and secretary general of the Indian Red Cross Society. He served as the Secretary General from 2005 and was also the Chair of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Advisory Body on Sustainable Development and Health. He had also served as Director General of Health Services, Government of India, from 1996 to 2005. Dr. Agarwal was a prolific writer who represented India at may international meetings, symposia, and scholarly meetings. He took an interest in psychosocial support in 2006 and had been contributing to the development of the field in India and Southeast Asia. Under Dr. Agarwal’s leadership, India had the largest psychosocial support program in the Red Cross movement. In May 2015, Dr. Agarwal corresponded with the Editor about a book on psychosocial support. He reviewed the early chapters of the present work and offered ideas and suggestions for improvement of the theoretical building blocks of the book. In August 2015 he shared with the Editor suggestions for improvement that were later incorporated as part of Chapter 1 of this book. Therefore, he merits posthumous ownership recognition for Chapter 1. His untimely death left a significant void in the completion of this book, his idea.

Cecilie Alessandri, MA, is the psychosocial desk officer for the international department at the French Red Cross. An intercultural psychologist, she also has a master degree in educational sciences. She worked as psychologist, program manager (HIV, mental health and training projects mainly), and trainer in several NGOs (Action Against Hunger, ASMAE, International Medical Corp.) in France and abroad. She manages French Red Cross psychosocial activities in different operational countries and supports dedicated teams to implement and develop psychosocial support for vulnerable persons affected by sicknesses, conflicts, or natural disasters.

Subhasis Bhadra, PhD in Psychiatric Social Work, (NIMHANS, Bangalore) is working as Assistant Professor and Head in the Department of Social Work, Gautam Buddha University. He started his career with his work in intervention in the Gujarat earthquake (2001) and subsequently worked in riots (Gujarat, 2002), tsunamis (2004), Kashmir earthquake and unrest (2005), terrorist attack (Mumbai Serial Train Blast, 2006), cyclone Nargis (Myanmar, 2008), Tsunami in Japan (2011), Himalayan Tsunami (Uttarakhand disaster, 2013) through different organizations, such as Care India, American Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross, Oxfam India, Action Aid, and International Medical Corps. He supported psychosocial work in a few Asian countries through training and materials development. His research interest includes peace building, life skills education, social work interventions in community, disaster mental health, community and school mental health, and psychosocial support. He has delivered lectures in different institutes/universities on invitation; some of them are School of Social Work, University of Denver, (Skype Lecture); Department of Psychology, University of Indonesia; Department of Education, Tohoku University, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dr. Bhadra is guiding PhD research work on various topics, such as issues of “Dalits,” juvenile delinquency, HIV/AIDS, and child care practice in community. Dr. Bhadra is actively engaged in various disaster response programs and lectures on disaster management issues in NIDM (National Institute of Disaster Management), New Delhi, in addition to providing support to different NGOs working on livelihood interventions, community-based care of the orphan children, and psychosocial support in development and disasters. He has published academic articles and book chapters published at the national and international level.

Satyabrata Dash, MD, serves as senior psychiatrist at Apollo Hospitals in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India, and is one of the leading mental health care providers in Odisha. Since 2003 Dr. Dash has been involved in the development of psychosocial support programs in India. During the 2004 Southeast Asia Tsunami, he was deployed to the Republic of Maldives where he spent two years as an American Red Cross Psychosocial Delegate. Upon completion of his assignment he was hired as a Psychosocial Delegate by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) in Bangladesh. He is credited with developing the training program for the Psychosocial Specialist. His has consulted with the IFRC Reference Center for Psychosocial Support in Copenhagen. He is currently working with Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and the host communities for Action Aid Australia (formerly AustCare). He has worked in post-natural disaster projects on community-based mental health and psychosocial support; designing and implementing country- level programs during emergency as well as during recovery and rehabilitation for five years for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement covering communities, schools and country level mental health referral systems. Has contributed towards the development of policy documents, strategies and frameworks for countries and organizations. He has experience working in collaboration with partner organizations—governmental, nongovernmental and UN agencies including academic institutions and has served as a training facilitator and training course designer in different countries in Asia for different organizations. Dr. Dash has compiled, edited, and adapted training manuals and booklets on mental health and psychosocial aupport and has multiple international research publications and presentations. He is trained in the management of the Psychosocial Support Section of Emergency Response Unit (ERU).

Rashmi Lakshinarayana MD, MPH is Senior Consultant, at EY K.S Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Dr. Lakshminara- yana is psychiatrist with extensive experience in disaster mental health. She served as the National Counterpart for the Indian Red Cross Society Disaster Mental Health and Psychosocial Support program that served several million of affected people in Gujarat, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. She completed her MSc Public Health in Developing Countries from the LSHTM and holds a postgraduate certificate in Online and Distance Education from the Open University. As a disaster specialized psychiatry, she worked in community-based mental health programs in various states in India with the Indian Red Cross Society, American Red Cross, Oxfam and Action Aid. After completing her degree in public health, she worked with an international perinatal health unit at the Institute of Child Health, London. She helped integrate a maternal mental health component to a cluster randomized controlled trial on reducing neonatal mortality in Jharkhand, India.

Anjana Dayal de Prewitt, MA and Diploma in Humanitarian Diplomacy, serves as the Associate Director for Psychosocial Support and Protection at Save the Children’s US Programs. She has worked in several natural disasters and armed conflicts in different parts of the world over the past 14 years. She is currently a member of the Roster Group at the IFRC Reference Center for Psychosocial Support, Copenhagen, Denmark. Most of this time has been with the Red Cross and has included leading community-based psychosocial support programs. As the Country Manager for psychosocial support, she developed the community-based approach for the psychosocial support program in 2005. This program was the flagship for the American Red Cross Tsunami Response. She has provided technical assistance to programs in about twenty countries around the world on themes pertaining to community mobilization, gender, and psychosocial support. She has used qualitative research methodology to conduct conflict analysis, develop national and global guidelines, and design and implement community-based programs, and she published two books. She has also written over ten technical articles for international journals. She speaks English, Hindi, Urdu, and Spanish.

Pramudith D. Rupasinghe, MA, is a psychologist who is specialized in clinical psychology in post-conflict and humanitarian settings. He worked with the Red Cross Movement as well as with the United Nations department of peace operations. He worked in Liberia with United Nations Mission during the West African Ebola crisis and provided his services to the affected populations in the region. Pramudith has been a part of several major disaster responses, including the Haiti earthquake, Great Lake crisis, 2004 South Asian Tsunami, and Nepal earthquake. He has written a book entitled Footprints in Obscurity: A Living Story, that provides a profound psychological insight on how childhood dreams often shape one’s adulthood. The book presents an image of working in several African countries during civil wars and the Ebola virus.

Jean-Claude Kekoura Zoumanigui is the psychosocial support program supervisor of the French Red Cross, sub-delegation of Macenta, Republic o...

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