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AuthorNina Koevoets
TitlePsychosocial support for children living in war and occupation : effectiveness and different methods in psychosocial support programs for Palestinian children as seen by several NGO's
SupervisorsPaul Aarts, Raija-Leena Punamäki
Year2008
Pages171
FacultyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Institute/dept.FMG: International School for Humanities and Social Sciences
ProgrammeFMG Conflict Resolution and Governance
AbstractChildren in the Palestinian Territories suer from violence continuously. There are psychosocial programs that aim to improve the children's wellbeing, but there are few studies about such programs. This has resulted in a lack of a systematic approach, overview and consensus. Therefore it is important to gain more knowledge on this subject and see which activities and methods are seen as eective ways to alleviate children's problems, what factors can contribute to the eectiveness and which reasons can be found to explain dierences in the use of methods between dierent psychosocial programs. From interviews with six NGO-professionals, it can be concluded that most of them see activities that include play and art as eective. Including parents in the activities was seen as an eective method or as positively eecting the eectiveness of other activities. Movement restrictions on the other hand were seen as negatively in uencing the eectiveness of activities. Dierent needs, such as safety and alternative education were reasons to organize various psychosocial activities. Dierences in the use of methods is also explained by vision that is probably derived from education and experience, but also by capacities of the NGOs and the fact that the programs included dierent target groups.
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