Objectives


To Support Emotional Recovery: Provide a safe environment for employees to process their feelings and reactions to traumatic incidents, reducing acute stress levels, and fostering emotional relief. This objective focuses on immediate well-being and psychological recovery.
To Promote Team Unity and Prevent Burnout: Foster team unity, facilitate sharing of practices, and address personal issues to prevent secondary traumatization and burnout. This objective focuses on team well-being, support, and growth.
To Prevent Long-Term Psychological Issues: By addressing initial reactions and providing timely support, psychological debriefing contributes to the prevention of long-term psychological issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).


Methodology    The Methodology utilized by the external facilitator will be participatory and utilize  techniques such as group/team sessions and one -on-one session amongst other.

Outcome  Improve Participants knowledge by:


Providing staff with requisite skills in managing stress and practicing positive adopting positive self-care practices
Improving staff psychological, emotional and physical well being
Help reduces immediate stress and anxiety
Improving coping mechanism/skills by exploring personal problems and find new ways of dealing with them
Early detection of issues,  It will help identify staff members who may be suffering from effect of traumatic events
Providing ways that will facilitate self-knowledge and self-understanding (personal growth) of MdM staff
Preventing secondary traumatization, burn out and other psychological suffering among staff members
Communicating to MdM management any concerns or special support required by staff(s) that may limit them carrying out their roles.


Summary of Response    


Review of mental health issues in the frontline response.
mental health and psychosocial well-being
Trauma, healing and recovery
Ethical guidance in work environment
Stress management


Qualification    


M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology
5 years of clinical consultancy practice
Knowledge trauma healing and stress management
Registered member with the NACP