If you work in a region where there has been periods of warfare, major displacement and/or huge repression, your workers have surely met people suffering from mental stress and other problems. Is this a good time to think of actively helping them, in a systematic and informed way? If your answer is “yes”, this manual hopes to guide you through the thinking, the planning and the start of this work:
- What an NGO Can Do
- the “Basic Package”
- Groups, Problems & Strategies
- Psychiatric Problems
- Online Resources
Source of contents: extracts from Interviewing & Counselling at the Grassroots and Human Rights In MENA
(www.Networklearning.org), plus contributions from M.L. Moynihan MD;
Editors: M.N. Moynihan M.Comm.H., Drs.N.Wassenaar, J.Anderson
Published July 2010, Amsterdam.