Organization: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Registration deadline: 29 Apr 2016
Starting date: 11 Jul 2016
Ending date: 23 Jul 2016
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 indispensible 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.
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.Application available at: www.santannapisa.it/psycho16/domande/