WHO - Basic Psychosocial Skills- a guide for covid-19 responders

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Translations To avoid duplication, contact the IASC Reference Group for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (IASC MHPSS RG) (mhpss.refgroup@gmail.com) for requests for translations in all languages. All completed translations will be posted on the IASC Reference Group website. If you create a translation or an adaptation of this work, kindly note that: • You are not allowed to add your logo (or that of a funding agency) to the product. • In case of adaptation (i.e. changes in the text or images), the use of the IASC logo is not permitted. In any use of this work, there should be no suggestion that IASC endorses any specific organization, products or services. • You should license your translation or adaptation under the same or equivalent Creative Commons licence. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 or 3.0 is suggested. This is the list of compatible licences: https:// creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses. • You should add the following disclaimer in the language of the translation/adaptation: “This translation/adaptation was not created by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). The IASC is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this translation/adaptation. The original English edition ‘Inter-Agency Standing Committee. Basic Psychosocial Skills: A Guide for COVID-19 Responders.’ License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO shall be the binding and authentic edition.“ COVID-19 specific icons used in this guide are OCHA humantiarian COVID-19 icons. The whole array of icons include symbols for lockdown, physical distancing, COVID-19 and coronavirus, infection prevention, testing, infected and not infected, and case management. They can be found at https://www.unocha. org/story/ocha-releases-humanitarian-icons-help-covid-19-response. ©IASC, 2020. This publication was published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ igo). Under the terms of this licence, you may reproduce, translate and adapt this work for noncommercial purposes, provided the work is appropriately cited.
Introduction Basic psychosocial support skills are at the core of any Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) intervention. Such skills are also indispensable for many others involved in the COVID-19 response, whether they identify as an MHPSS provider or not. Thus, this guide is meant for all COVID-19 responders. This Basic Psychosocial Skills Guide is a project by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The project was supported by member agencies of the IASC MHPSS RG, with extensive inputs from COVID-19 survivors and COVID-19 responders from all sectors in the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Uganda, UK, USA. They all responded to a survey to help us draft this guide and make it more relevant to their mental health and psychosocial needs. The initial draft was then opened up to further feedback from COVID-19 survivors and COVID-19 responders through review and additional in-depth interviews. The final guide incorporates this feedback. A big thank you to these responders - who include food supply, distribution, law enforcement, health professionals, protection actors, transportation workers, managers and others - for completing our surveys and influencing this guide. This is a guide developed for and by responders around the world. The IASC MHPSSS RG acknowledge Espe for his illustrations in this publication. We hope that this guide will help to orient responders from different countries, from different sectors, on how to integrate psychosocial support into their daily COVID-19 responses and how to make a difference in well-being of people they communicate with during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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