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Bibliography - Guidelines

Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Guidelines from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) for all stages of community based psychosocial support . http://www.humanitarianinf.org/iasc/content/produ

Mental Health and Mass Violence: Evidence Based Early Psychological Interventions for Victims/Survivors of Mass Violence. NIMH  2002. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/massviolence_intervention.cfm
(There is a pdf file at that link with a 123 page document. Especially useful are Appendix A, which gives the key components of early intervention, and Appendix B, which gives guidance on the timing of interventions.  This report was assembled by 58 disaster mental health experts from 6 countries. Some of the report is quite academic, but the essentials are excellent.)

Sphere Handbook, revised edition
http://www.sphereproject.org/handbook/index.htm
This document sets out the humanitarian charter and minimum standards  for disaster response. It is practical and gives clear directives. See especially Chapter 5, Section 3's subsection on Mental and Social Aspects of Health, for good explanations of psychological first aid and community based interventions appropriate for the setting.

Managing Traumatic Stress: Tips for Recovering From Natural Disasters
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=69

 

APA Disaster Response Network http://www.apa.org/practice/drnindex.html

American Red Cross; http://www.redcross.org

Doctors without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/volunteer/field/

EFPA Working Group on Disaster and Crisis  site with bibliographies, guidelines, links to resources

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Foundations; http://www.ifrc.org/index.asp

Relief Web http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

UN Volunteer Office www.unvolunteers.org

World Health Organization www.who.org.int/en/

World Volunteer Web, with special coverage of the tsunami disaster has links to organizations needing volunteers' help in many areas. www.worldvolunteerweb.org