This one-page chart provides information about reactions of preschool-aged children to disaster and quick tips about how to respond to their needs.

This one-page chart provides information about reactions of school-aged children to disaster and gives quick tips of how to respond to their needs.

Apre yon dezas natirèl, kote anpil moun pèdi anpil bagay, li toutafè nòmal pou ou santi w tris, pou ou move, oswa pou ou sou tansyon.

This statement reflects the views of the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Reference Group in response to the Haiti crisis. This guidance is based on the IASC Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Guidelines in Emergency Settings and highlights those aspects of the Guidelines that are particularly relevant for the current response in Haiti. It also draws on knowledge and experiences of MHPSS responses in previous emergencies, including the 2004 tsunami response and the 2009 Gaza crisis.

Drawing from a document first circulated by the World Health Organization, World Vision, and the World Trauma Foundation, I-TECH developed this French-language pocket guide in coordination with Haiti's Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population, to help clinicians provide psychosocial care in an emergency context. Beginning with the basic principle “Do No Harm,” the guide provides an accessible, easy-to-use framework for evaluating and responding to symptoms of trauma.  

This publication has been conceived as a practical manual. The different types of stress experienced by delegates are described along with the associated symptoms. It highlights the importance of identifying and knowing personal, team and organisational resources. This second version has been adapted to reflect updated needs and experiences. It incorporates a new selfassessment questionnaire at the end of the booklet. Increasing delegates’ knowledge of stress management will avoid potential risks to their psychological and physical health.

This brochure, intended for the general public in Haiti, focuses on the effects of a disaster on the emotional health and offers tools on how to care for emotional health after a disaster. [Creole: Bwochi sa a ki fèt pou gran piblik en Ayiti a mete laksan sou efè dezas genyen sou sante emosyonèl epi li bay bon jan zouti sou fason pou swen sante emosyonèl aprè yon dezas.]

The primary purpose of these guidelines is to enable humanitarian actors and communities to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people's mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency.

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC ) issues these Guidelines to enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency.

Provides guidance on mental Health and psychosocial support in emergency settings.

This brochure provides parents, caregivers and adults with some suggestions on how to help children cope with the effects of a disaster and how to get prepared before a disaster strikes. [Creole: Bwochi sa a ofri paran, moun ki bay swen ak lòt adilt yo kèk sijesyon sou fason pou ede timoun yo fè fas ak efè yon dezas genyen, epi tou sou fason pou prepare anvan yon dezas frape.]

PFA is an evidence-informed modular approach for assisting people in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism: to reduce initial distress, and to foster short and long-term adaptive functioning. It is for use by mental health specialists including first responders, incident command systems, primary and emergency health care providers, school crisis response teams, faith-based organizations, disaster relief organizations, Community Emergency Response Teams, Medical Reserve Corps, and the Citizens Corps in diverse settings.

Workers participating in rescue and relief work after a disaster are exposed to stress which may affect their own emotional well-being. It has been observed and documented that relief workers develop stress-related problems during their work and even after relief work is over. Supervisors must make sure that field workers are properly briefed about what to expect in the situations where they are going. Many community- level workers will never have seen mutilated bodies or misery in such a large scale as in disasters. They must be appropriately

This document gives a brief description of how children at different stages of development may react to disaster in the short and long term.

This resource is intended for parents, teachers, and everyone working to help children and families make sense of a world where the forces of nature and man can unleash a fury in which buildings

This booklet provides information for young people about how to cope with the death of loved ones.

Mental and Social Aspects of Health of Populations Exposed to Extreme Stressors

Information focusing on psychosocial interventions.