With a focus on disasters and other emergencies affecting children and families, the module gives students the opportunity to expand their skills by learning about approaches and methods for dealing with local emergency situations.
The module contains the following subjects taught over 10 weeks:
- Drivers of disasters - short, medium and long term
- Effects of disasters on people and their environments
- Approaches to disaster intervention – contextual and legal
- Types of responses to disasters, such as:
- Psycho-social support to families
- Case management
- Multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary and coordinated responses
- Mapping needs and mapping tools
- Engaging local support facilities and resources
- Vulnerability capacity assessment
- Capacity building (Institutions and training of paraprofessionals etc.)
- Medium term and long term disaster reduction
Learning outcomes
During the module students achieve knowledge of:
- Drivers of disasters using several theoretical approaches.
- Effect of disasters on human beings and their environments.
- Social, psychological political, cultural, spiritual, environmental contexts and legal framework in which responses are located.
Skills and competencies:
- The ability to place definitions and theoretical understandings in both a theoretical and context, such as current political, environmental, and developmental trends.
- Skills in relating theoretical knowledge to practice.
- Working with responses to disasters, including skills in:
- Psycho-social support to families, groups and communities.
- Case management.
- Multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary and co-ordinated responses.
- Mapping needs and mapping tools.
- Engaging local support facilities and resources.
- Vulnerability capacity assessment.
- Capacity building. (Institutions and the training of paraprofessionals).
- Medium-term and long-term disaster reduction.