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Post-traumatic integration – low-level psychosocial support and intervention for refugees

Objective: The objective of this Erasmus+ project is to raise the awareness of occurrence of post-traumatic problems (including post- traumatic stress disorder-PTSD) among refugees and asylum seekers and possibilities for early low-level mental health interventions. Background and aims: Post-traumatic problems are often overlooked, simply because most so- called first-liners – people in direct contact with arriving refugees and asylum seekers – are not aware of them. The project aims to enable non-specialist refugee-care providers to identify and to give low-level psychosocial support and early low-level mental health interventions to refugees with post-traumatic problems (and PTSD). Materials and methods: The desktop and field research was performed to assess the general context and awareness of the post-traumatic problems in refugee population in 7 partners’ countries. Results: A large part (65, 2%) of the participants does not have sufficient knowledge on PTSD. Over 90% of participants believe it is important to understand the long-term effects of psychological stress in working with refugees. Eighty percent of the participants mostly or completely agrees they would benefit from guidelines on soft skills and communication strategies. Conclusions: The needs assessment laid foundation for development of: Awareness Raising Guidelines to support and inform the first-liners about with traumatic backgrounds and problems ; Action Sheets contain recommendations and key actions for meeting the needs of refugee and migrant clients ; The e- platform will support the delivery of all online tools of the project ; Mobile application for mobile smart phones and tablets. The program is launched (https://posttraumatic- integration.eu ) and will be demonstrated and discussed.

Post-traumatic integration ; low-level psychosocial support ; refugees

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