Lay counselling in humanitarian organisations: a field report on developing training materials for lay counsellors

Barbara Juen¹, Heidi Siller², Michael Lindenthal³, Leslie Snider⁴, Marie Nielsen⁵, Marie Louise Muff⁶, Nana Wiedemann^7
1 professor in psychology at the Department of Psychology at the University, of Innsbruck (Austria). She has been working in the field of psychotraumatology for more than 10 years. She works with the Red Cross and has developed training materials for the Austrian Red Cross, psychosocial programmes in crisis intervention, telephone counselling and staff support
² psychology at University of Innsbruck. She has been doing research and training in the field of psychotraumatology. Her special field is gender and trauma. She is working at the University of Innsbruck and the Medical University of Innsbruck
³ psychology at University of Innsbruck. He has been doing research and training in the field of psychotraumatology. His special field is terrorism and natural disasters
⁴ psychiatrist with international experience in psychosocial programmes, evaluation and research in difficult circumstances. She is currently head of programmes for War Trauma Foundation (the Netherlands)
⁵ consultant of voluntary patient support at the Danish Cancer Society (Denmark)
⁶ Capacity and Organizational Development Consultant at the Danish Cancer Society (Denmark)
⁷ director of the Psychosocial Centre at the Danish Red Cross (Denmark). She is a psychologist working in humanitarian organisations, training staff and volunteers, developing training materials in psychological support, victim support and disaster mental health

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