Psycho-Social Support

Activites and Services

The programme operates psychosocial centers in Jerusalem, Hebron, Jaba’a, Qalqilia, Gaza city and Khan Younis.

Psycho-Social services include:

• Psychosocial support to caregivers (Love Bridge): providing caregivers with skills required to cope with their children and to protect them from violence, physical ill-treatment and sexual abuse.
• School-Based Psychosocial Support: targeting children in the 5th and 6th elementary grades with a view to improving their psychosocial wellbeing and enhancing their interaction with the local community through acquiring related coping skills.
• Community-Based Activities, such as open days, festivals, theatre shows, workshops and trips: enabling children and their caregivers to interact, as well as increasing caregivers’ awareness of their children’s psychosocial needs.
• Individual and group psychological counseling: helping individuals, developing their skills and providing them with essential tools to help them to achieve sense of adaptation with the self and the community.
• Training courses: enhancing the efficiency and capacities of staff and professionals in the psychosocial field.
• Supervision: improving the quality of services through enhancing psychosocial workers’ self awareness so they can provide services based on sound scientific, theoretical and practical basis.

Moreover, PSP runs a center for expressive art therapy through music, painting, plays, photography, etc. Art therapy plays a vital role in psychosocial interventions to help individuals suffering from psychological difficulties.