Resources are organized according to the following categories:
Online handbooks
Managing the stress of humanitarian emergencies
UNHCR Staff Welfare Unit (2000)
This handbook focuses on stress management in humanitarian emergencies with particular reference to those serving in the field as managers and team leaders. It contains information on both trauma and cumulative stress.
Insights into the concept of stress
Pan American Health Organization
This handbook walks the reader through a course aimed at helping managers and aid workers identify and understand stress. Stress Management in Disasters is an accompanying handbook that focuses on dealing with stress in disasters and traumatic situations. It offers information on both trauma and cumulative stress.
CARE International Security and Safety Handbook
CARE
This handbook discusses policies, assessments, planning, stress management, and fundamental safety and security procedures for humanitarian workers. Chapter 7 focuses on sources of stress, stress indicators, and ways to prevent stress.
Books
Sharing the front line and the back hills: Peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers and the media in the midst of crisis (2002)
Edited by Yael Danieli. Published by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.
This book offers a blended compilation of first-hand accounts from humanitarian workers, peacekeepers, and journalists, along with research and policy articles on stress, trauma, and staff care practices.
The Humanitarian companion: A guide for international aid, development and human rights workers (2005)
Written by John H. Ehrenreich. Published by ITDG Publishing
This book focuses on the different stages of humanitarian assignments (before, during, and after deployment) and addresses security, health, stress, coping with other’s trauma, and returning home.
Stress and Trauma Handbook: Strategies for flourishing in demanding environments (2003)
Edited by John Fawcett. Published by World Vision
This book examines the impact of stress on humanitarian staff and their families and makes recommendations for how individuals and organizations can reduce the fallout from stress.
Working in International Development and Emergency Aid (2004)
Written by Angela Higney and Piero Calvi-Parisetti.
This e-book is available for purchase online. The first half focuses on the international relief and development environment - what is international aid, and who are the actors? The second half focuses on becoming an aid worker - building your experience, working with the UN and the Red Cross, working with governments, and further education.
Bibliographies
A guide to spiritual resources
A list of classic and contemporary spiritual texts on different religions, prayer, meditation, mindfulness, and artistic spiritual disciplines.
Managing Stress in Humanitarian, Health Care, and Human Rights Workers
Extensive guide by John Ehrenreich to resources and research on traumatic stress and vicarious trauma associated with humanitarian workers and journalists, first-responders (such as police), mental health professionals, and survivors of traumatic events.
Links
Traumatic stress
The following organizations and websites provide information regarding traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout:
Humanitarian work
The following websites provide information regarding staff support, stress management, safety training, and cross-cultural adjustment for humanitarian workers:
Related organizations
The following organizations have a mission similar to that of the Headington Institute:
Whom do we work with?
The following organizations represent the type of humanitarian aid and disaster relief organizations assisted by the Headington Institute:
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