Country: Italy
Registration deadline: 06 Apr 2020
Starting date: 29 Jun 2020
Ending date: 11 Jul 2020
The psychosocial approach responds to the threats brought by disruptive events, or predicaments of life to the notion of individual, group and collective identity. For this reason said approach proves especially useful in situations where individual, group and community identity and roles are questioned, challenged, annihilated, in need for reconstruction-readjustment, as is the case of migration and displacement forced by wars, disasters, collective socioeconomic vulnerabilities, and return. That is why psychosocial activities have become an indispensable component of humanitarian responses to emergency displacement.
Yet, a non-harmonized approach to and understanding of psychosocial support tend to characterize those interventions.
The focus of the Course is on providing a given frame of understanding of the psychosocial dimension of displacement and crisis-affected societies, while presenting harmonized ethics, approaches and tools associated with psychosocial support.
The course will provide a given frame of understanding of the psychosocial dimension of migration, displacement and crisis-affected societies, as well as of the processes within the migration cycle of vulnerable groups, all while presenting harmonized ethics, approaches and tools associated with psychosocial support.
The course will enable participants to acknowledge the complexity of MHPSS Interventions in crisis situations or during the migration process, conceptualize holistic responses, understand the interrelation of the different sectorial responses and gain advanced specific knowledge in each sector of intervention.
Activities:
The course will combine a variety of teaching methods, including frontal lectures, role plays and simulations exercises. All classes will have a strong component of interactivity.
Certificate:
At the end of the Course, only participants who have attended at least 80% of the classes and have paid the tuition fee will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
Those participants willing to be awarded up to 5 academic credits will be required to take a multiple-choice exam. Upon successful completion of the exam, they will receive a Final Certificate indicating the number of credits awarded.
How to register:
The Course is open to psychologists, social workers, educators-teachers, medical doctors and psychiatrists, nurses, applied artists, humanitarian workers, emergency experts, development workers or similar, who meet the following minimum requirements:
• Have at least a 3 years University degree or equivalent in relevant disciplines, issued by a University institution or equivalent.
• Have at least 2 years of work experience in a related field.
• Have a proficient working knowledge of English.
