Psychosocial Interventions - A Handbook

This handbook prepared by the International Federation
Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support (the PS Centre)
reflects the increasingly active role that the Red Cross
Red Crescent Movement plays in psychosocial responses. The
development of the handbook is a result of collecting lessons
learned on the many varied psychosocial interventions that
have been implemented in different countries recently, with
a particular focus on the psychosocial response to the Indian
Ocean tsunami of December 2004. This event led to one of the
largest emergency responses in history, with the involvement
of a multitude of organisations and individuals in many varied
psychosocial interventions. These interventions helped thousands
of communities, families and individuals and contributed to
increasing global awareness on psychosocial needs and responses
following critical events and during crises.