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Intervention manuals


Intervention develops and publishes training and training of trainer’s manuals in the field of psychosocial support in (post) conflict areas. Various respected trainers have drawn on their training methodologies. These texts have been translated into several languages, which can be used by local trainers and aid workers in different countries.

So far, the following manuals have been published:

‘Training of teachers in areas of armed conflict’
Authors: Anica Mikuš Kos & Ria Stiefelhagen; Albanian.
(this manual can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.interventionjournal.com)

‘Training of teachers in areas of armed conflict’
Authors: Anica Mikuš Kos & Ria Stiefelhagen; Arabic.
(this manual can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.interventionjournal.com)

‘Training of teachers in areas of armed conflict’
Authors: Anica Mikuš Kos & Ria Stiefelhagen; Russian.

‘Training of teachers in areas of armed conflict’
Authors: Anica Mikuš Kos & Ria Stiefelhagen; Tamil.

‘Training of counsellors in areas of armed conflict’
Author: Guus van der Veer; French.

‘Training of counsellors in areas of armed conflict’
Author; Guus van der Veer; Spanish.

‘Strengthening community mental health resources by training refugees as peer counsellors’
Author: Josi Salem; Arabic and English.

‘Healing communities by strengthening social capital - a narrative theatre approach’
Author: Yvonne Sliep; French and English.

‘On the road to peace of mind. A guidebook. An applied approach to the training of trainers who, in
turn, train teams to implement psychosocial and mental health interventions in developing
countries affected by emergencies’ Author: Nancy Baron; Arabic and English.
(This manual comes with a dvd of the documentary ‘On the road to peace of mind’ (subtitles in English, Arabic or French). 

These manuals have been disseminated to local organisations, schools and trainers in various countries such as North Ossetia, Ingushetia, the Russian Federation, Georgia, the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Colombia and Peru.

The manuals can either be downloaded free of cost from the website: www.interventionjournal.com, or purchased in hard copy (except for the Albanian and Arabic training of teachers) from the War Trauma Foundation, info@wartrauma.nl.

Inhabitants of low income countries may order the manuals for free, while those from high income countries will be charged € 15,00 per manual, with an additional € 7,50 per order for handling and shipping.

Please transfer the requested amount to ING-bank account number 1050
IBAN: NL29INGB0000001050
BIC: INGBNL2A