Psychosocial Programming
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Displaced Children and Orphans Fund Psychosocial Programming: Guiding Principles
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These guiding principles are informed by the World Health Organization's “Mental Health in Emergencies: Mental and Social Aspects of Health of Populations Exposed to Extreme Stressors ” (WHO/MSD/MER/03.01, pdf, 75 kb) and the Interagency Working Group “Psychosocial Care and Protection of Tsunami Affected Children: Guiding Principles.”
The IWG is composed of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children UK (SCUK), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The term “psychosocial” reflects an understanding
that people have psychological and social responses to events.
It acknowledges that the environmental, familial, community and
cultural context are necessary to understand the consequences of events and
interventions that may be useful. The term psychosocial is commonly used in
disaster mental health because it addresses active determinant health factors
such as agency, ability and self-determination and not merely the absence of
disease and infirmity.
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