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Introduction
In collaboration with our Ukrainian colleagues, we decided on covering six key topics, including children in war, sexual violence, forced migration and human rights. Expert trauma psychologists, practitioners and scholars came forth to contribute to the project and recorded a lecture each on the chosen topics.
The lectures are for psychologists and psychology students in war regions, but also in countries that receive war refugees, such as Poland as well as in Norway. The objective is for helpers to be able to assist and provide psychological assistance to civilians and internally displaced people, refugees in neighboring countries, as well as asylum seekers in Norway.
On this page, all of the lectures with Ukrainian subtitles and Polish subtitles are available, as are the slides used in the lectures.
The lectures as well as their slides can be freely used for teaching purposes and we encourage universities as well as NGOs or agencies involved in the support of refugees, to use this material for inspiration and guidance. Our experience is that combining the presentations of these lectures, with a discussion following, is a good way of doing this.
When this project was introduced (May-June 2022), we uploaded a new lecture each week, and the relevant lecturer in that week’s video contributed to a zoom discussion on the topic, mainly with Ukrainian students and professionals. Translators were available during the discussion.
Additional resources can be found at MHHRI, and in Ukrainian on their subpage on Ukraine.
Lecture 6 Marianne Opaas on "Forced migration and trauma":
Lecture 6 slides: (Ukrainian) (English)
Lecture 5 Anette Bringedal Houge on "Sexual violence":
Lecture 5 slides: (Ukrainian) (English)
Lecture 4 Tine Jensen on "How can we understand and support trauma exposed children? Some things to do":
Lecture 4 slides: (Ukrainian) (English)
Lecture 3 Helen Suizu Norheim on "Helping pregnant women and parents with infants and young children facing war, insecurity, and trauma":
Lecture 3 slides: (Ukrainian) (English)
Lecture 2 Nora Sveaass on "Human Rights violations in war and its psychological consequences":
Lecture 2 slides: (Ukrainian) (English)
Lecture 1 Ragnhild Dybdahl on "Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in humanitarian emergencies":
Lecture 1 slides: (Ukrainian) (English)
Working group at PSI responsible for creating the videos
Members of the working group were Gulnaz Anjum, Milan Obaidi, Nora Sveaass, Sigrun Marie Moss, Lasse Moer (IT-AV), Ann-Cathrin Coenen, Alice Nordquist and Svein Harald Milde, supported by Head of the Institute Bjørn Lau, Head of Teaching Vibeke Moe, and Head of Section Beate Seibt.
Collaborators
The working group at the Department of Psychology collaborated closely with Ukrainian professionals at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv's Faculty of Psychology (TSNUK). We also collaborated with Anna Gebinska at The SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. The Polish and Ukrainian translators involved in the project were fantastic, and without them this project would not have been possible. The working group at the Department of Psychology also collaborated closely with Mental Health and Human Rights Info (MHHRI), a Norwegian NGO, providing information on mental health and human rights).