Knowledge base

Impact aims at the compilation and provision of knowledge about post-disaster psychosocial care. To this end, it maintains this comprehensive knowledge base. You can select one of the subject areas shown below.

Scientific articles: an overview of (inter)national scientific articles on (post-disaster) psychosocial care.

Disaster documentation: an overview of the (healthcare) research activities performed after national (Dutch) disasters and major incidents. General information about particular disasters is also included.

Protocols: these describe the content of relief operations in psychosocial care. They relate in particular to coping with traumatic events.

Plans/scenarios: documents describing the organisation of psychosocial care. They involve both post-disaster psychosocial care and psychosocial care in serious small-scale incidents.

Information material: folders and brochures used in psychological education for those affected.

Other information: here you will find general information on post-disaster psychosocial care.

Training programmes: an overview of training programmes in the field of post-disaster psychosocial care.

Expertise: a list of relief workers, experts and organisations with expertise in the field of post-disaster psychosocial care, broken down by Regional Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine Preparedness (GHOR) regions.