The Psychosocial Impact of Humanitarian Crises - A Better Understanding for Better Interventions

The Psychosocial Impact of Humanitarian Crises - A Better Understanding for Better Interventions

2014

Each year, ACF responds, through its emergency operations, to the vital needs of thousands of people facing humanitarian crises. These crises have many different causes, both natural and human: natural disasters, droughts, conflicts, totalitarianism, extremism, epidemics, etc.

These humanitarian crises, often highly complex from a material point of view, also cause profound changes on social and psychological aspects of individuals, within the families and communities.

Responding to such crises situations therefore involves a complex operational response, addressing psychosocial dimension. For this reason, and to increase the effectiveness of our humanitarian programmes and responses, it is essential that field workers understand the social and psychological impact of different types of humanitarian crisis on populations. An understanding of this aspect can thus support that such a component be integrated into ACF operational responses

Details

Type
Implementation
Approach(es)
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Disorder(s)
Alcohol/drug use disorders
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
Region(s)
Africa
Asia
Central America and the Caribbean
Middle East
Population(s)
Children and adolescents
Families and carers
Humanitarian and conflict health
Maternal and neonatal health
Setting(s)
Community
Specialist care