Publication Date
July 2011
145-153 p
"This article discusses the training of mental health workers whose basic job is with clients that have been seriously affected by armed conflict and/or natural disasters by using ‘helping through talking’, and who have had little education that is relevant to this work. It sums up the characteristics required of the workers, their learning needs, the messages that the training needs to convey, and the characteristics and potential contents of a tailor made, participants-oriented programme"
Intervention, Vol 9, Issue 2
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Keywords
Development/ Humanitarian; human disasters (war & conflict); Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; Education; formal education; technical and vocational education and training; Health; mental health; systems: health workforce; Livelihoods; career development; Programme/ Project; programmes and projects