Psychological First Aid

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Online/Hybrid Learning Mode

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Program Goals

To provide psychological first aid training in crisis for people involved in social work. The programme is based on psychological and medical studies through the prism of the Christian worldview.

This Program Will Be Beneficial to

  • Church workers
  • Volunteers
  • Social workers
  • Social educators

Admission Requirements

  • Certificate of complete secondary education
  • Belonging to a local church
  • Practical experience in church or social work

Program Details

  • Format: Online/Hybrid Mode
  • Course Start Date - January 13
  • Duration: 1.5 months: Friday (19:00-21:00) and Saturday (10:00-17:00) - 5 weekend blocks

Tuition Cost

  • Tuition - UAH 2,200/year
  • Accommodation and Meals – On Request
  • If you are seeking financial assistance to help with your studies, you can attach a motivation letter as an application for financial support when filling out an application.

Learning Outcomes

Enhanced Character

  • Listening skills and empathy
  • Stress resilience in crisis situations
  • Spiritual and personal maturity and accountability

Broadened Knowledge

  • Knowledge of the basic principles in organising psychosocial support and providing first psychological aid to people affected by crisis situations
  • Knowledge of the principles on how to help people who have gone through traumatic experiences
  • Knowledge of safety rules when providing first aid

Refined Skills

  • Be able to provide first aid to people in crisis situations
  • Know how to interact with other professionals: psychologists, doctors, pastors, social workers when providing help
  • Know how to integrate scientific knowledge of psychology and the biblical worldview.

Curriculum Intro

  • Self-help and psychological first aid for trauma in crisis situations during war

    Guidelines and practice in organising psychosocial support and providing first aid to people who experienced crisis situations during hostilities.

  • Medical first aid

    Module topics: 1. The importance of first aid and tactical medicine. Difference for military and civilians (actions and tools). 2. Actions during shelling. Areas for providing treatment. 3. Bleeding control: critical bleeding (types and signs); direct pressure on the wound; means of stopping bleeding (tourniquets, Omega tourniquet, Esmarch tourniquet, improvised tourniquet); tamponade; pressure dressing - fixing an object in the wound. 4. Algorithm of actions with the victim: stable side position. 5. First aid kit components. 6. Examination of the victim according to the MARCH protocol. 7. Help with fractures (limbs, neck, pelvis, head, spine, collarbone), burns, frostbite, abdominal or eye injuries, stroke or epilepsy. 8. Actions in case of chemical or nuclear attack. 9. Theory and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). 10. Evacuation. Methods and stretchers. 11. Triage (basics of wounded triage).

  • Assistance in acute stress reaction (shock)

    Module topics: 1. What is an acute stress reaction (shock)? 2. Types of behaviour in a time of crisis. 3. Psychological assistance in crisis situations.

  • Primary crisis care as a way to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    Module topics: 1. Goals of psychological assistance during the first months after a traumatic event; 2. Features of crisis counselling; 3. Building resources and stabilising a person;

  • Serving people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    Module topics: 1: Definition of PTSD, main groups of symptoms; 2: The concept of acute, chronic, simple and complex PTSD; 3: The importance of rehabilitation and support for the whole family.

  • Support in grieving

    Module topics: 1. The experience of loss; 2. Psychology of grief, stages of "normal" grieving; 3: Painful reactions in grief; 4: Helping people who are experiencing loss.

  • Survivor's guilt

    Module topics: 1. What is survivor's guilt complex? 2. Is survivor's guilt a disorder? 3. Risk groups; 4. How to overcome the feeling of guilt?

  • Working with children and teenagers in crisis situations

    Module topics: 1: Concepts of crisis, traumatic experience and trauma; 2. Age-specific counselling.

  • Safety procedures for volunteers and ministers in providing assistance in crisis situations

    Safety procedures for volunteers and ministers in providing assistance in crisis situations

  • Specifics of providing spiritual support to people who have experienced traumatic events

    Module topics: 1: The main spiritual questions a person faces when experiencing loss; 2: Specifics of providing spiritual support to people who have experienced traumatic events; 3: A look at negative emotions from the perspective of Christianity; 4: Preventing the main mistakes that can lead to religious trauma.

  • Peculiarities of working with internally displaced people (IDPs)

    Module topics: 1. Refugee syndrome, emotional defences and breakdowns; 2. What IDPs and refugee hosts need to know in order to provide adequate assistance; 3. Using the pyramid of needs as a marker for providing assistance to IDPs; 4. Working with the fear of loss, expanding the concept of "home".

Apply Now

There are 3 steps to take

01

Fill out an online registration form

Fill out the form
02

Get a recommendation letter from your church pastor

Please send the link to the pastor of your local church to fill out a recommendation letter

Send the recommendation form
03

Have an online interview with the admission committee

Contacts

Керівник програми

Maryna Sekisova

marina.sekisova@uets.net

Admissions

info@uets.net
Kyiv, Pushcha-Vodytsia, 57 Kvitky Tsysyk St., UETS Academic Building, Floor 1

Information

+380 95 315 84 42
0800331252

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