Initiatives of the European Commission for Target Group Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare Programs

Although most victims of disasters recover on their own, a minority of survivors, uniformed services, and relatives develop long-term disaster related psychic disorders such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Especially this subgroup should receive timely and appropriate psychosocial help. In many EU countries is offered post-disaster psychosocial care by a variety of caregivers (i.e. professionals and volunteers, NGOs, church or commercial organizations). Therefore, European standardization of providing post-disaster psychosocial support is currently required. The presentation describes the project supported by the European Commission and named European Guideline for Target Group Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare – Implementation (EUTOPA-IP), supported by the European Commission. EUTOPA-IP has integrated two materials: German “Target Group Intervention Programme” and Dutch “Multidisciplinary guideline”, also with the experiences of experts in the area of psychosocial support from the EU countries. Main target is to develop a guideline for the uniformed services on the basis of the Multidisciplinary guideline for early psychosocial interventions, the adaptation of the Target group Oriented Intervention Program (TGIP) to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and preparation and implementation of training program for various professional groups. The project aims at standardization of psychosocial aftercare in case of disasters as well as at the development of European network based on current findings in psychotraumatology. Early screening, supportive context, early preventive and curative psychosocial interventions, management of interventions, implications for the clinical field and future research are topics discussed in the project. Project consortium: – City of Cologne (Germany)– Centre of Psychotraumatology (Germany)– Impact (The Netherlands)– Spanish Society for Psychotraumatology and Traumatic Stress (Spain)– Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)– Capital City of Dusseldorf, Department of Public Health (Germany).

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European Commission Project: European Guideline for Target Group-Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare—Implementation

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x11006303 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 234-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Stepan Vymetal ◽

Albert Deistler ◽

Robert Bering ◽

Claudia Schedlich ◽

Magda Rooze ◽

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Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Psychosocial Support ◽

Psychosocial Care ◽

Well Being ◽

Target Group ◽

European Guideline ◽

Post Traumatic Stress ◽

Psychic Disorders ◽

The Individual ◽

Post Disaster

AbstractAfter disasters, the individual health and well-being of first responders and affected population are affected for years. Therefore, psychosocial help is needed. Although most victims recover on their own, a minority of survivors, members of rescue teams, or relatives develop long-term, disaster-related psychic disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This subgroup especially should receive timely and appropriate psychosocial help. Many European countries offer post-disaster psychosocial care from a variety of caregivers (i.e., professionals and volunteers, non-governmental organizations, church or commercial organizations). Therefore, European standards for providing post-disaster psychosocial support currently is required. This article describes the project European Guideline for Target Group-Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare—Implementation, supported by the European Commission.

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Do I Shoot Faster Because I Am Thinking about an Outgroup or a Threatening Outgroup?

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000255 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 29-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jessica Mange ◽

Keren Sharvit ◽

Nicolas Margas ◽

Cécile Sénémeaud

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Target Group ◽

Main Study ◽

Priming Effects ◽

Males And Females

Abstract. This research examines if aggressive responses through a shooter bias are systematically generated by priming outgroups or if a threat stereotypically associated with the primed outgroup is required. First, a pilot study identified outgroups stereotypically associated and not associated with threat. Afterwards, the main study included a manipulation of target group accessibility – ingroup versus nonthreatening outgroup versus threatening outgroup. Following exposure to primes of the group categories, the participants in all conditions played a shooter game in which the targets were males and females with ambiguous ethnicity and religion. Results demonstrated that while only priming of an outgroup stereotypically associated with threat elicits aggressive responses, priming of both nonthreatening and threatening outgroups leads to an increase in the ability to distinguish between stimuli compared to ingroup priming. These effects are discussed in terms of priming effects, dimensions of threat, and possible interpretations of this ability increase.

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The Predictive Validity of Assessment Centers in German-Speaking Regions

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000031 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 61-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Nicolas Becker ◽

Stefan Höft ◽

Marcus Holzenkamp ◽

Frank M. Spinath

Keyword(s):

Predictive Validity ◽

Target Group ◽

Assessment Centers ◽

Credibility Interval ◽

German Speaking ◽

English Speaking ◽

Intelligence Measures ◽

Meta Analyses

As previous meta-analyses have focused almost solely on English-speaking regions, this study presents the first systematic meta-analytical examination of the predictive validity of assessment centers (ACs) conducted in German-speaking regions. It summarizes 24 validity coefficients taken from 19 studies (N = 3,556), yielding a mean corrected validity of ρ = .396 (80% credibility interval .235 ≤ ρ ≤ .558). ACs with different purposes and different kinds of criterion measures were analyzed separately. Furthermore, target group (internal vs. external candidates), average age of the assessees, inclusion of intelligence measures, number of instruments used, AC duration, as well as time elapsed between AC and criterion assessment were found to moderate the validity.

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