EDUCATING AND TRAINING
FOR A RESILIENT SOCIETY
Dra. Mónica García Renedo
Dra. Raquel Flores Buils
Dra. Rosa Mateu Pérez
Psychosocial Observatory on Resources in Disaster Situations
(OPSIDE-UJI)
Development Cooperation and Solidarity Office (OCDS)
Universitat Jaume I. Castellón (Spain)
INDEX
1-PREVIOUS IDEAS
2- PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES
AND PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESILIENCE
4- PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE THROUGH TRAINING
5-TO SUM UP...
1-PREVIOUS IDEAS
As part of life, people are faced with successive setbacks,
misfortunes, traumatic events ...
Training and education are two fundamental tools to prepare
active citizens to cope with traumatic events (disasters, death of a
loved one, illness...).
The process of training and education must recognize the person
as active and should focus on both their deficits and strengths
(resilience centered approach).
University becomes a space of excellence to provide training and
education.
2- PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES AND
PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
WHERE IS OPSIDE? ORGANIZATION CHART
RECTORATE
VICE-RECTORATE OF INTERNATIONALIZATION, COOPERATION
AND MULTILINGUALISM
ADVISORY COUNCIL
ACADEMIC
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Development
Cooperation
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AND SOLIDARITY OFFICE
Solidarity and
volunteering
Psychosocial Observatory
of Resources in Disaster
Situations (OPSIDE)
Permanent Immigration
Observatory
2- PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES AND
PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
WHAT IS OPSIDE?
The Psychosocial Observatory of Resources in Disaster
Situations of the University Jaume I is one of the works groups
belonging to the Cooperation Development and Solidarity Office
(OCDS).
The OPSIDE seeks to create a dedicated resource space
through:
-RESEARCH
-TRAINING
-COUNSELING relating to the psychosocial aspects of
disaster relief and promotion of resilience
2- PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES AND
PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
WORK AREAS
AREA OF COUNSELING AND TRAINING
Actions aimed at training and advice on psychosocial aspects of
emergencies and disasters and promote resilience
AREA OF RESOURCES AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
Actions to disseminate materials and resources for victims and the
general population
AREA OF RESEARCH
Actions aimed at research and projects related to psychosocial
aspects in emergencies and disasters and promote resilience
2- PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES AND
PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
AREA OF COUNSELING AND TRAINING
•
Course of continuous training in intervention psicosocial in disasters (9th edition)
•
Course of psicosocial intervention in disasters in Nicaragua
•
Course of psychological training for firemen
•
Formation to voluntary workers: psychosocial aspects of the humanitarian help
•
Summer course. Psychology and disasters. How to intervene with the victims though
positive psychology?
•
Conferences on psychology and disasters
•
I confers of Psychological training for firemen
•
Psychology, disasters and mass media to report without damaging the population?
•
Towards a resilience school? Resilience and bereavement in the educational context
•
The resilience: a change of look towards the human strengths
•
Psychological preparation in the area and to the return of a mission for nurses
•
The school psychologist before situations of bereavement . What to do?
•
The resilience: from suffering to hope (3th edition)
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PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
AREA OF RESOURCES AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
• Creation of a place of Resources of Psychology, Disasters and
Resilience in the Library of UJI (books, DVDs, slides, journals ...)
250 materials
• Specialized website about psychosocial intervention
in disaster: www.opside.uji.es
•Awareness campaign through the press. “Six month. Six reflections”
• Publications:
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PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITAT JAUME I
RESEARCH AREA
Resilience and bereavement in the educational context.
Forced displacement in Colombia. Promotion of resilience.
The psychosocial intervention in disasters in Nicaragua.
OPSIDE-UNAN-León
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESILIENCE
BASIC IDEAS
The Resilience discusses the process that people living in
adverse and/or traumatic situations from a positive view of these
situations, based on their strengths and abilities.
The Resilience focuses on prevention and intervention in
adverse and/or traumatic situations.
It's essential to work on preventing resilience from childhood,
through the provision of internal and external resources
(Grotberg, 1995 y Henderson y Milstein, 2003).
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
WHAT IS THE RESILIENCE?
It’s the human capacity to
cope with life's adversities
and leave them
strengthened
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILENCE
Set of processes that generate and develop individuals, families
and/or communities from the experience of trauma whose origin
can be chronic adversity (situations of poverty, disease ...) or
specific (accident, death, terrorist attack, natural disaster ...)
Psychic scar
RESULT
METAMORPHOSIS
Increased in some
of competences
(Mateu, García-Renedo, Flores y Gil, 2013)
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH
TYPES OF CHANGES:
1. Changes in perception of oneself
2. Changes in interpersonal relationships
3. Changes in spirituality and philosophy of life
(Calhoun y Tedeschi, 1998)
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
Heroes?
Process
It isn’t absolute or total
The wonder of pain
Metamorphosis
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
FACTORS OF RISK
The factors of risk refer to those characteristics or
qualities of a person, of a family or of a community that
are joined to a high probability of damaging our health.
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
FACTORS OF RISK
A disturbing situation. Ex. psychological disorders or
addictive behaviors, death of a loved one...
Social and environmental
unemployment, poverty...
factors.
Ex.
Situations
of
Chronic problems of health
Natural catastrophes and the social
earthquakes, forced displacements, wars....
catastrophes:
(Theis, 2005)
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
PROTECTIVE FACTORS
The concept of protective factor refers to the
influences that it modifies, improves or alters to
the response of a person to some danger that
it(he,she) predisposes to a not adaptative result
(Rutter, 1985)
Individuals
Environmental
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
What individual features do resilient people have?
Independence
Morality
Creativity
Humor
Aptitude to relate
I
Initrospection
Initiative
(Wolin y Wolin, 1993)
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
Importance of social environment
RESILIENCE TUTOR
“Those
persons
who
in
adverse or traumatic situations
provide
safety,
help
to
overcome the adversity and
teach(show) estrategías to
develop strengths and skills”.
(Cyrulnik , 2002)
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
FACTORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Inside the family: familiar sure support, loving family,
structured family and with high expectations and support of
familiar networks
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
FACTORS
OF
RESILIENT
FAMILIES
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
(Delague, 2010)
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
FACTORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Outside the family: support systems, close, warm and
stable relations (at least one), guides or resilience tutor,
mostly informal support network, connections prosocial
organizations and resilient schools.
3-CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESIILIENCE
Universities, schools and all aspects that are part of it,
can be key to generating processes of promoting
resilience.
On the one hand, teachers as potential resilience tutor
(Cyrulnik, 1999).
On the other hand, with the work of the individual
qualities of resilience for the formation of active citizens
(Suárez, 2004; Wolin y Wolin,1993).
4- PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE THROUGH TRAINING
FROM UNIVERSITY…
Continuous Training Course "Resilience. From suffering to
hope”
50 Hours
Semi-face. Moodle.
The general aim of the course is to announce different aspects
related to the resilience and how to promote it in their places of
work. Also, tools and knowledge are facilitated to promote the
role of a professional "resiliente".
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FROM SCHOOLS…
Study of needs. 3 educational centers
Training course for teachers: Towards a resilience school? Resilience
and bereavement in the educational context
100 teachers of Primary Education and Special Education.
Semi-face. 30 hours.
4- PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE THROUGH TRAINING
GENERAL AIM
Give tools and strategies to the teachers to promote resilience
in the schools and to be able to approach traumatic situations
SPECIFIC AIMS
Approaching the concept of resilience
Breaking stereotypes
Emphasizing the importance of the teachers
Facilitating resources to promote the resiliencia
Providing guidelines for intervention in a traumatic event
4- PROMOTION OF RESILIENCE THROUGH TRAINING
CONTENTS
SECTION I
Resilience: concept model and guidelines or resilience tutor.
SECTION II
Factors of protection and risk. Individual skills of resilience.
SECTION III
Bereavement and resilience. Guidelines for intervention in a
traumatic event.
5-TO SUM UP...
Sometimes we feel that life hits us, illness, accident, death and
even an attack or a natural disaster occur in our lives; that's when
we realized that we have not all under control and is, at this time,
when crop our strengths and weaknesses to overcome the
situation experienced.
Resilience is a hope, a new look, a light with which we can
understand the processes that we live because of these
experiences. Brings us to the fact that individuals, families and
communities, possess capabilities to overcome and even emerge
stronger in adverse, difficult and / or traumatic situation.
A GIFT FOR US…
DON’T GIVE UP!!!
writer: Mario Benedetti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_iNtEQH4Y
Thank you!
opside@uji.es
Psychosocial Observatory on Resources in Disaster Situations
(OPSIDE-UJI)
Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (España)