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| Year : 2008 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 327-333 |
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Words to Action: pictorial contextualization of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
Joseph O Prewitt Diaz1, Anjana Dayal de Prewitt2
1 2008 recipient of the International Humanitarian Award from the American Psychological Association. He is currently the Disaster Mental Health Officer for the Puerto Rico Chapter of the American Red Cross
2 served as country manager for Psychosocial Support in Sri Lanka for American Red Cross and was a consultant with ICRC on psychosocial support in India. She serves currently a volunteer with the Puerto Rico Chapter of the American Red Cross
Correspondence Address:
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
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A major challenge for the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings is to make them accessible to community groups. People at the local level often have difficulty in reading and comprehending the guidelines. This article describes how pictorial aids, such as visual stimulus cards and ‘low verbal-high visual’ instruction materials, were used to assist communities groups to work with the guidelines. We describe how these materials have been developed in several post disaster settings in Latin America and South East Asia. The experiences with these documents suggest a promising practice for using the guidelines.
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