Psychology for Liberation: Contemporary Currents Disaster prevention and Response

Psychology for Liberation: Contemporary Currents

Disaster prevention and Response

IVth International

Conference of Community Psychology

Barcelona 21 th to 23rd June 2012

Catalina Argüello Gutiérrez

1. Basic background 2. Case Studies3. Common notions4. Challenges and possibilities5. What´s next?

Main topics

PSYCHOLOGY FOR LIBERATION

DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES

PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT

1.Basic Background

Psychology for liberation

Psychosocial traumaCollectivenessSocial PerceptionViolenceOppressed Power analysis

Emergencies and disasters

“Psychiatric perspective”Mental Health Risk Management Psychological Assistance

Risk

Hazard

Vulnerability

History and memory

Context and culture

Resiliencia

Reconstrucction

Emotional

Social

Comunitary

•Social and not natural

•Interdisciplinarity

•SelfCare

Psychosocial Support

provide tools to restore and develop coping skills

Relational approach

Human Suffer

Community disorganization

Support and emotional accompaniment

Prevention and Reconstruction

Intervention actions

EDAN-MHFirst Psychological Aid (PAP)CommunityEducationShelter and basic needsPsychosocial and

pharmacological crisisSelf care of the rescue teamsComunicating “bad news”Grief and bereavement

BRIGADA DE ATENCIÓN PSICOLÓGICA UCR PROPUESTA DE EAPS CCSS

POLCO CALICLOPAD -COLOMBIA

2. Case studies

Psychological Brigade UCR

Almost 20 years of action

VolunteersCommunity orientedStudents and

Professors Shock, Crisis, TraumaTCUFollow up in several

critical incidents

Health Facilities CCSS

Masive afluence of patients and their families

Intensification of emotional reactions and social disorganization

Changes in the atention dynamics

Specificities of CCSSImpact

POLCO

Communitarian Police, Cali

Plans and trainingSelf care

EvacuationAttention and supportPrevention

CLOPAD

Santiago de Cali Emergency Plan

The challenge of interinstitutionality

ContinuityCommon Agendas

PSICO SOCIAL TRAUMAHISTORICAL MEMORY

COMMUNITARIAN BASETAKE A POSSITION

CONSTRUCTED VULNERABILITY

3. Common notions

4. Challenges and possibilities

Prevention and vulnerability reductionEffective responseReal debate about the socioeconomic systemFoundraising, NGOsEvalution and Continuity InterdisciplinarityMediaSelf Care

What´s next?

Incorporate what we have learned

ParticipationContinuityArts, music and youth

expresionsLook foward to structural

transformationsRe think our theory from our

praxisSocial commitment

Other ideas?

Catalina Argüello Gutiérrez

catalina.arguello@gmail.com