Psyc.E.In. – Psychological early intervention: clinical training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Psyc.E.In. – Psychological early intervention: clinical training

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

Context and background of project
The pandemic of 2020 due to Covid-19 is stressing the crucial competences of sanitary staff and rescuers involved in emergency psychology interventions. To deal with the humanitarian emergency is a new community priority to face. An answer is improving an European systematic VET education within the framework of Psychological Early Intervention to strengthen accessibility and expertise in the field, which can increase the professionalism of care provided by psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Psychological Early Intervention helps people involved in a humanitarian emergency to stimulate their coping and inner resources as well as those of their close circle. It is direct to individual, social and professional targets, helping communities going back to normal after disasters or critical events.

Objectives
Supporting opportunities for psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and for their VET trainers in acquiring and developing key clinical competences in Psychological Early Intervention to support health and wellbeing in direct and indirect victims in in humanitarian emergencies.

Methodology to be used in carrying out the project
Psych.E.In. management is structured on the five major project management process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing. EFQM quality approach is provided to guarantee participate leadership, buy in and impact.

Number and profile of participants:
Direct targets are:
1) 1.500 Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
2) 375 Trainers of Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
Indirect target are:
3) 4.000 persons of society population
4) 300 Sanitary (physicians, nurses…) and rescues personnels (policemen, firemen, first aid triage staff…)
5) 500 Psychology undergraduate University students
6) 20 VET organizations in charge of training sanitary and rescue targets.
7) journalists and communication agencys
8) 10 researchers/professors in the Emergency field
9) 10 policy makers

Description of activities;
Tangible Results (Intellectual Outputs)
1 – I.O. 1 M.O.O.C. aims is to develop clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in an emergency trans-theoretical prospective as well as VET trainers of psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts with interactive methods (using videos, cases analysis, exercises, peer evaluations). Clinical competences, teaching competence, coordinating and networking skills in emergency are provided. M.O.O.C. is a VET e-learning training that matches psychological professionals learning needs, especially in the time of 2020 emergency, with standardize learning paths with clear phases and steps that make them very usable and declinable in emergency contexts.
2 – I.O. 2 Toolkit aims to offer an easy self training to psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and their VET trainers for personal debriefing after Psychological Early Interventions.The purpose is to take care of the mental health of psychological staff preventing burn out, distress and consequences of vicarious trauma.
3 – I.O. 3 Case studies aim to develop description of multiplier settings in Psychological Early Intervention and the multiplier intervention approaches in Emergency. Case studies will offer a systemic matrix of expertise in which each learner could recognized the best interventions for contents and specific target psychological demand.
Intangible results
Consortium will improve common language and networking with VET organizations and other stakeholders in Emergencies. Individual mental health and community resilience will be improved by qualified Psychological Early Intervention. Special attention is set to fragile population as children, women in pregnancy, seniors and rescues. Health care and rescues staff competences to deal with victims in humanitarian emergency will be improved.

Expected impact on direct target:
1) More clinical skilled psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
2) More VET educational skilled trainers of psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
Expected impact on indirect target:
3) To persons of society population
– Improvement of mental health and resilience in coping trauma in humanitarian emergencies.
4) To Sanitary and rescues personnels
– Improvement of knowledge and competences to deal with victims in emergency
– Improvement of mental health and resilience in coping vicarious trauma and distress in humanitarian emergencies.
5) To Psychology undergraduate University student
– Improvement the curricula on Psychological Early Intervention
6) VET organizations
– Improvement common emergency framework, language and networking
7) journalists
– Exploitations as divulgative communication
8) To researchers
– Exploitations: articles, researches
9) policy makers
– Improvement endorsement with local, national and European stakeholders

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299860 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIWERSYTET JANA KOCHANOWSKIEGO W KIELCACH & Country: PL

Project Partners

• INSTITUTE OF GROUP ANALYSIS ATHENS
• Associazione per l’EMDR in Italia
• Modrý anjel / tím krízovej intervencie n.o.
• INSTITUT ALFRED ADLER DE PARIS
• Asociace klinických psychologů České republiky z.s.
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• PRESOVSKA UNIVERZITA V PRESOVE