Psychosocial care in disaster management: a training of trainers (ToT) module
This training of trainers’ module on disaster psychosocial care is a five–day module that focuses on providing the necessary and adequate knowledge and skills on the subject to persons working in the disaster management and related departments. After the training, if the person can conduct/facilitate three other programmes at the state or district level he/she can be called a master trainer on disaster psychosocial care. Apart from the professional implications, this module should help a trainee to rejuvenate his/her self-development and coping abilities to handle daily life stressors in more effective manner.
The module has a total of six sub-modules and each sub-module has few (two-seven) learning units on the basis of which programme sessions have been designed:
- Module 1.1: An Overview of Disaster Psychosocial Care Management in India
- Module 1.2: Understanding Psychosocial Needs of the Disaster Survivors
- Module 1.3: Techniques of Psychosocial Care
- Module 1.4: Working with More Vulnerable Groups
- Module 1.5: Stress Management & Care of Co-workers
- Module 1.6: Disaster Psychosocial Care Ethics & Essentialities
This module can be considered as a standard 5-day ToT module on disaster psychosocial care for non-medical professionals.
