Distribution by Region

Distribution by Organisation Type, Document Type, Region and Year

Psychosocial support and its variants occur mostly in documents published in Europe, followed by North America, Africa and Asia. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are RC, NGO, NGO_Fed, IGO and Net organisations.

RC documents provide most occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Europe and Africa. Occurrences from NGO are the second most important in number, mostly extracted from activity reports from Europe, Asia and Africa.

Most NGO_Fed activity reports with occurrences were also published in Europe. In fourth place, documents from IGO are mostly general documents and activity reports predominantely published in North America. Lastly, Net generates a considerably smaller number of occurrences from European activity reports.

Psychosocial support is a non-therapeutic intervention that enables people to alleviate psychological concerns and rebuild social structures after traumatic events; special focus is placed upon teaching the skills of stress management and relief, communication and dialogue, and decision-making processes.

Psychosocial support is an integral part of the IFRC's emergency response and is broadly defined in the IFRC Psychosocial Framework of 2005–2007 as "a process of facilitating resilience within individuals, families and communities by respecting the independence, dignity and coping mechanisms of individuals and communities. </s>

Psychosocial Support (PSS) is defined by the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC, 2007) as: "Any type of local or outside support that aims to protect or promote psychosocial well-being and/or prevent or treat mental disorder."

Different forms of psychosocial support are a professional expression of accompaniment.

The IASC [Inter-agency Standing Committe of the UN] guidelines specify a minimum response to a range of mental health and psychosocial support domains, including a mental health and psychosocial support perspective within water and sanitation, food and nutrition, and education.

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) provides specific recommendations for integrating mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes into humanitarian response sectors including food security and nutrition, education, shelter and site planning and water and sanitation.2 These recommendations are supported by a growing recognition of the relationship between mental health and psychosocial wellbeing on the one hand, and on the other the objectives of humanitarian programming, such as safety and meeting basic needs.

Mental health and psychosocial support involves multi- sectoral actions.

The National Society and the ICRC assessed these needs and the availability of services – including mental health care and psychosocial support – for victims.

In Katakwi TPO Uganda provided an integrated package of care including psychosocial support, socio-economic strengthening, and increasing access to and use of legal and medical services for survivors of GBV.

Unaccompanied foreign minors received psychosocial support and other assistance from an ICRC-backed NGO.

CRCS carries out a wide variety of other important activities such as disaster management, psychosocial support , tracing (locating missing persons and restoring family links), blood donation, First Aid lessons and training, tree planting, road safety, participating in European programmes, organizing camping expeditions, humanitarian and community events, assistance to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as organization of seminars.

The support groups are entry points for holistic interventions including psychosocial support, livelihood improvement and disaster risk management skills.

In October, MSF teams in Kirkuk governorate started to provide healthcare , including psychological and psychosocial support, for displaced people and war-wounded patients from Hawija district.

Mental health and psychosocial support activities can now be considered a central element of humanitarian activity (Ager et al., 2014), and have been clearly defined within response to crises.

Psychosocial support promotes the restoration of social cohesion and infrastructure.

Shared collocations allow to discover matching elements with organisations talk about psychosocial support. These constitutes intersections between subcorpora.

Top collocates shared by 2 organisation types are PSS (RC+IGO), accompaniment (RC+NGO), conflict-related (RC+IGO), counselling (NGO_Fed+NGO), adherence (NGO_Fed+NGO), provided (RC+NGO) and setting (RC+IGO).

Top collocates shared by 3 organisation types include recreational (NGO_Fed+NGO+IGO), providing (NGO_Fed+NGP+IGO), survivor (NGO_Fed+NGO+IGO), trauma (RC+NGO_Fed+NGO), community-based (RC+NGO_Fed+IGO) and psychological (RC+NGO_Fed+NGO).

Top collates shared by 4 organisation types (RC+NGO_Fed+NGO+IGO) include counsel, vocational, offer, victim, receive and provision.

Finally, all organisation types selected for analysis coincide with the following collocates in order of relevance: mental, provide, legal, medical, health and skill.

How on earth are they going to find their way back into life without good psychosocial care, trauma healing, and psychological/spiritual support?

Women receive information on where to access legal, medical, and psychosocial services; family planning services; and information and resources relating to gender-based violence.

In partnership with UNICEF, CFSI implemented the "Child Protection and Education Project" (CPEP), which is aimed at providing a safe and secure environment for children, as well ensuring continuous access to psychosocial activities, preschool and basic education.

To help people cope with trauma, Medair delivered psychosocial assistance to more than 1,600 affected people in the region.

She has been deployed to both local and international missions including Kashmir, Jogjakarta, Myanmar, Somalia, Philippines and the latest, Lebanon, with her psychosocial team to help strengthen the capacity of local communities with disaster-related psychosocial interventions.

Psychosocial support is a relatively recent addition to humanitarian response.

Mental health and psychosocial support is a relatively new domain in the Nigerian emergency setting, and there is a lack of specialised human resources, including in the north-east.

Consideration needed to be given to how defining (sic) 'psychosocial support' in order to ensure its inclusion in funding proposals.

Also, there is some confusion in the field about definitions of key terms of psychosocial support or resilience that vary between and within aid organizations, disciplines and cultures (Patel et al., 2011).

Psychosocial support interventions have been a part of the IFRC approach for more than a decade and good practice guidelines in psychosocial support are now widely published.

The chart below represents the distribution of psychosocial support between 2005 and 2019 in terms of the number of occurrences and relative frequency of occurrences. It also allows you to view the distribution across Regions, Organisations and Document types.