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PSYCHOLOGY OF EMERGENCY

because psychological well-being is a right of every person

Some of the people who participated in the establishment of PsyPlus Onlus had already experienced the tragedy of the emergency professionally or personally. Several of us have matured their interest in the subject having known closely the catastrophe of the earthquake in L'Aquila and its surroundings, in 2009. The event that instead marked the start of our operations in the field of emergency psychology is Instead, it was the earthquake that hit a large part of Central Italy in August 2016. Since then, knowing how to stay in an emergency and knowing how to operate effectively to contain its traumatic impact, has become an important part of our mission.

Network work

Psychosocial emergencies

Since 2020 PsyPlus is part of the Esprì Network, which brings together many of the most active professionals in the psychology of the Italian emergency.

With colleagues from Network expressed PsyPlus has taken steps to offer support to the Albanian population hit by the earthquake in the Durres area.

Here are some links to more detailed information on this experience in which the partners Giuseppe Scurci and Patrizia Perrone have engaged.

Earthquake in Albania - The ESPRI network on the field

Albania. Training and support intervention.

Albania Mission - Collaboration Agreements.

PsyPlus Emergency Services

Psychological First Aid

critical incident stress management

listening and psychological orientation

network coordination

psychoogical support to emergency workers

training of volunteer staff

development and support groups

community empowerment

prevention of trauma consolidation

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Ukraine emergency

on the occasion of the emergency caused by the war in Ukraine, PsyPlus ETS deployed dedicated professionals for direct psychological support and for the selection/training of volunteer staff. Part of the activities were carried out in collaboration with SaveTheChildren Italia.

from August 2016 to February 2022 PsyPlus operated in the area of seismic crater 2016, collaborating with InterSos, ActionAid Italy, Lazio region, Marche region, Civil protection, CAV L'Aquila, Mountain Community of Velino, City of Accumoli, NHS, and by making psychological support services, psycho-pedagogical counseling, listening services in mobile units, community empowerment actions, expressive workshops dedicated to children available, training opportunities, gender violence prevention actions and intra-family.

Central Italy earthquake - since August 2016, psychological support and community empowerment

On the night of 24 August 2016, after a series of seismic events in the provinces of Rieti, Ascoli Piceno and Perugia, a 6.0 magnitude quake with its epicenter in the municipality of Accumoli caused 299 deaths and 388 injuries. Since 25 August 2016 Psy + Onlus has been present in the camp set up in Accumoli, making itself available, together with INTERSOS to guarantee professional interventions in support of the people who have suffered the earthquake, as well as their rescuers, through the constant presence of 2-4 volunteers in the Accumoli camp and the activation of an itinerant team in charge of visiting the more isolated hamlets.

Tomas and Terremoto

Tomas e Terremoto tells the perspective of a child in the presence of the Earthquake, an “ineluctable and unpredictable” giant that “shakes and devastates”. Kanjano's pencil has grasped the fundamental aspects of what operators and psychologists have been able to observe in three years of field work, from emergency to post-emergency, from the Sibillini and Laga mountains to the Marche coast, always alongside the most affected populations. .

Psy + in Accumoli with Intersos for the victims of the earthquake

From Thursday 25 August Psy + Onlus was present in the field set up by the Civil Protection in Accumoli to offer psychological support to the victims of the earthquake and to the rescuers. Among the services offered, in addition to individual, family and group interventions, Intersos and Psy + have activated a child friendly space and a library available to all. The first community empowerment interventions were also activated, aimed at rebuilding the networks of relationships and enhancing local resilience resources. Fully integrated into the network of services to victims coordinated by the Civil Protection, the work of the professionals of Psy + and Intersos has made it possible to offer support to the numerous families who have lost property and loved ones and who are experiencing dramatic days, in which the memory of the earthquake is relentlessly recalled by the succession of aftershocks.

We rebuild people
in partnership with Intersos
minors at the center of post-earthquake community regeneration
From the outset, Critical Incident Stress Management interventions were accompanied by community empowerment actions (coaching of the Accumoli Band, planning of craft workshops, "child-friendly spaces" in the camp,...) in order to counteract the destructive effects of the earthquake on the economic, social and relational fabric of the municipalities involved, located in an area already penalized by the mountainous geography and the consequent fragmentation of the settlements
Run across
in partnership with ActionAid Italia
The project focused both on the containment of post-traumatic manifestations, but above all on the empowerment of communities, trying to offer recipients tools to counteract the sense of precariousness and experiences of abandonment. The project started with parents and schools: the school is in fact one of the main pillars of society and a place of community gathering, of creating the future.
Women
in partnership with ActionAid Italia and CAV L'Aquila
Prevention and fight against gender and intra-family violence.
PSY+ Onlus, with the collaboration of ActionAid Italia and CAVDtellini L'Aquila, has implemented a complex project to support the communities already hit hard by the 2016 earthquake and contribute, through different types of intervention, to the prevention and fight against these events in their territories. >>> Project site

Disasters and Psychosocial Emergencies

demonstrations - disruptive outcomes - good practices

On the day of 26 January 2018, PsyPlus and the Intersos Humanitarian Association have proposed to the institutions, the population and dedicated organizations, aopportunities for reflection and study on the dramatic experience of catastrophes and psychosocial emergencies resulting from them.

What are the different repercussions that occur in the case of disasters due to natural causes compared to those that originate from human mediation (terrorism, "massacres" on the road, ...)?
On an intrapsychic and community dynamics level, which aspects should be considered central in the deployment of humanitarian and psychosocial interventions?
How can the traumatic impact that catastrophes have on personality structures, collective identity and the system of belonging be contained?

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