Less Fearful, More Active: The Psycho-social School Project
Cascade model for the training and debriefing of counsellors. © UNICEF Turkey 2001
Strategy
A key point of the project was to strengthen both governmental and non-governmental resources at local and national levels. This would be achieved through a programme of continuous and gradually more intensive training by international authorities on trauma psychology. Eventually, selected school counsellors and members of NET would become trainers in different components of the programme. To this end, the psychology Department at Ankara University designed a pre- and post-evaluation study and reported on the project in the Spring of 2001.
The first essential step, required the setting up of a network of facilitators: the Teachers Debriefing (TD) would show teachers how to cope better themselves, thus helping to re-establish educational/support activities for the children they work with.
The second step, Classroom Based Intervention (CBI) would be implemented by school counsellors using expressive-behavioural therapy methods to help the children cope with the after effects of the disaster.
The third step, seven sessions of Group Counselling (GC) would follow up on CBI in the case of those children who would be identified as being moderately-to-severely traumatised.
A fourth component, Psycho-education (PE), was planned as seven sessions to be implemented in classrooms, reaching out to children, their teachers and parents who could not be involved in the more specialised activities.
Originally planned to run for six months, from September 1999 to February 2000, it was decided after the first term to extend the project to June. Following an evaluation in June, it was decided to extend it for a further school year.
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