scholarly journals Humanitarian aid workers’ mental health and duty of care

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 650-655
Author(s):  
Liza Jachens
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Mental Health Policies ◽  
Exposure To Trauma

Set in challenging and complex environments, there has been growing concern about the mental health consequences of aid work. Along with existing difficulties in reducing well-known occupational risks such as exposure to trauma, there is a lack of awareness of psychosocial risks in the humanitarian sector. This paper is a discussion, drawing on occupational health perspectives, on ways to reflect on mental health policies, research and interventions in this sector.

Stress, Mental Health, and Burnout in National Humanitarian Aid Workers in Gulu, Northern Uganda

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 713-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Ager ◽  
Eba Pasha ◽  
Gary Yu ◽  
Thomas Duke ◽  
Cynthia Eriksson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers

Predeployment mental health and trauma exposure of expatriate humanitarian aid workers: Risk and resilience factors.

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia B. Eriksson ◽  
Barbara Lopes Cardozo ◽  
David W. Foy ◽  
Miriam Sabin ◽  
Alastair Ager ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Resilience Factors

scholarly journals Self-efficacy and humanitarian aid workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine R. Turner ◽  
Donald Bosch ◽  
Anne A. T. Nolty
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Training Workshop ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Exposure To Trauma ◽  
General Self Efficacy ◽  
Frequent Exposure

AbstractAs a result of frequent exposure to trauma, aid workers are at high risk for negative psychological symptoms. Training specifically geared at fostering critical incident self-efficacy in humanitarian aid workers may bolster critical incident self-efficacy as well as general self-efficacy as they relate to experiences of traumatic symptomatology and resilience. Sixty-three aid workers completed questionnaires regarding efficacy, resilience, coping, and posttraumatic stress symptomatology at baseline, and 46 aid workers completed the same measures after the training workshop. Multiple regression analysis indicated that higher levels of self-efficacy related to higher resilience levels. General self-efficacy and critical incident coping self-efficacy (CICSE) were stronger after the training, even when controlling for histories of trauma. Histories of trauma contributed significant variance to CICSE before the training but were insignificant after the training. These findings suggest that aid organizations can support their workers by providing training that promotes resilience through enhancing efficacies.

The Mental Health of Expatriate and Kosovar Albanian Humanitarian Aid Workers

Disasters ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Lopes Cardozo ◽  
Timothy H. Holtz ◽  
Reinhard Kaiser ◽  
Carol A. Gotway ◽  
Frida Ghitis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers

Sojourn Abroad: Adjustment Experiences of Missionaries and Humanitarian Aid Workers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette H. Bikos ◽  
Michael Klemens ◽  
Leigh Randa ◽  
Alyson Barry ◽  
Thomas Bore
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers

scholarly journals Work–Life Balance Among Humanitarian Aid Workers

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1191-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Visser ◽  
Melinda Mills ◽  
Liesbet Heyse ◽  
Rafael Wittek ◽  
Vincenzo Bollettino
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Life Domain ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Trust In Management ◽  
Humanitarian Work

A limited body of research has examined satisfaction with work–life balance of expatriate workers who live abroad, residing outside the typical “family” or “life” domain. This study aims to demonstrate how and under which organizational circumstances job autonomy can increase work–life balance satisfaction of humanitarian aid expatriates. We hypothesize that especially in humanitarian work, trust in management can buffer potential negative effects of high autonomy. We test our hypothesis by means of ordinal logistic regression, using survey data collected among expatriates of the Operational Center Amsterdam of Médecins Sans Frontières ( N = 142). Results reveal that high levels of autonomy are positively related with work–life balance satisfaction when trust in the management of the organization is high. When trust in management is low, the effect of high autonomy on work–life balance satisfaction is negative. This implies that trust in management indeed buffers negative effects of high autonomy among expatriate humanitarian aid workers.

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