Participation in the Training Program

14.3.2017

Teachers of the Department of Social Pedagogy of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology took part in the training on teaching the course “Psychosocial Support in Emergency Situations: the Resilience Approach”.

On March 9-11, 2017 in Kyiv, the training program was conducted by the Center for Psychosocial Health and Psychosocial Support of the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” with the support of the International Medical Corps as part of the project “Improving Psychosocial Support and Mental Health in Ukraine”. Teachers Yaroslava Yurkiv and Oleksandra Skoromna participated in this program.

The main purpose of the event was training of social work teachers in teaching the course to strengthen the resilience of those affected by the armed conflict in Ukraine, in particular internally displaced persons, ATO members and their families, and to strengthen the viability of local communities in the East of Ukraine.

The task of the event was to familiarize with the concept of resilience on the individual (personal), group, social and macro-social level; with basic principles of psychosocial intervention in emergencies and with psychosocial support in accordance with the different needs of clients; approaches to strengthening resilience at the level of a person, family, society; to create competence in matters of client redirection, coordination and interaction of ancillary services. It should be noted that in modern interpretation, resilience is understood as the ability of a person or community to recover quickly after the impact of traumatic events.

The result of the training will be the introduction of the training course for students majoring in “Social Work. Social Pedagogy. Practical Psychology” of the Educational and Research Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of the State Institution “Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University” to strengthen resilience among people affected by the conflict in the East of Ukraine.

According to information
of the Educational and Research Institute
of Pedagogy and Psychology