Self-Care And Supervision Sessions Provided To Partner Organizations In Cooperation With WHO

To meet the needs of local organizations working in the field of psychosocial and health support, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme started supervision-and-self-care sessions for workers in local partner institutions, targeting 70 male and female, professionals divided into 5 supervisory groups.

To meet the needs of local organizations working in the field of psychosocial and health support, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme started supervision-and-self-care sessions for workers in local partner institutions, targeting 70 male and female, professionals divided into 5 supervisory groups.

The aim of these sessions is providing the necessary psychological support to workers and alleviating the psychological pressures resulting from the current working conditions in the shadow of the ongoing war.

This intervention comes within the framework of cooperation between GCMHP and the World Health Organization (WHO) within Project: ‘Supporting the Health Emergency Response’, funded by the Occupied Palestinian Territories Humanitarian Fund (oPt-HF).

GCMHP specialists started the sessions with icebreakers and warm-up exercises and then discussed the nature and impact of the psychological stress resulting from psychological trauma, its sources, symptoms, coping mechanisms and how to deal with it. In addition, the sessions addressed the importance of these sessions and the extent of their positive impact. Then relaxation exercises were practised,  before the groups and the instructors started preparing for the upcoming sessions.