Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
The IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (2007) enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency. The booklet "Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings: What Should Camp Management and Camp Coordination Actors Know", based on the 2007 guidelines, presents a brief overview of the basic knowledge CCCM actors, and camp managers in particular, should have in the domain of mental health and psychosocial support. It lists a series of actions and best practices that should/could be implemented in a camp setting to protect and support the psychosocial well-being of people. These include dedicated programmes as well as the consideration of psychosocial implications in the provision of basic humanitarian assistance and camp setup.
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- List of acronyms
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Coordination
- 3. Essential MHPSS activities, considerations and knowledge related to CCCM
- 4. Operational challenges
- 5. Post-emergency recovery activities by CCCM actors
- 6. Human resources
- 7. Assessment
- 8. Key tools and resources