Community based human development for strengthening the longer term psychological for the survivors from 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25516013
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 震災問題と人文学・社会科学
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: YANAGA Yuriko 慶應義塾大学, 医学部, 講師 (70523447)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWANO KENJI 国立精神・神経医療研究センター, 自殺予防総合対策センター, 室長 (20288046)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 震災問題 / 支援者支援 / 心理社会的支援 / エンパワメント / 人材育成 / コミュニティアプローチ / 持続可能な支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study was aiming at exploring the approaches to accelerate the human development in the limited resource areas damaged by Great East Japan Earthquake. Action research focused on enhancement of helping capacities of the caregivers who had been involved in supporting the survivors form the disaster.
Three steps were followed: first, survey of the needs of the caregivers who provided the survivors with the long termed psychosocial cares; second, planning, running and evaluation on the training workshops for the caregivers as a collaborative formation with the leaders of the caregivers; third, editing and publishing the support guide book to enforce the caregivers’ helping skills with other psychologists who were familiar with the community. Through these steps, the study focused on the community based research and showed the approaches to strengthening the sustainability of the human supporting system, which could be one of the model of community development.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学