The Rwandan Crisis: A Watershed for Humanitarian Intervention

A protocol for psychosocial intervention in refugee crisis; early experiences in Rwandan refugee camps

application of a working model (‘EPSoCare’) for psychosocial intervention for refugees living in camps in low income countries. The intervention’s main objective is social re-integration of individuals with psychosocial problems. The model was applied in pilot programmes in camps with survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The interventions aimed to cover 360.000 refugees in camps in Tanzani...

A Modular Collaborative Web-Based Framework for Humanitarian Crisis Management

Crisis intervention for nurses.

Cancer diagnoses and treatments can be crisis-causing events that overwhelm the usual coping abilities of patients and their families. Oncology nurses constantly are observing and attending to patients' diverse needs, ranging from biomedical to emotional, social, and psychological. Nurses have the chance to be first responders in times of patient crises, as they are in the position to recognize...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?

international humanitarian intervention

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