Title
The Kosovo family support project: offering psychosocial support for families with missing persons
UMMS Affiliation
Meyers Primary Care Instutite
Publication Date
2004-10-13
Document Type
Article
Subjects
*Community-Institutional Relations; *Death; *Family; Humans; Psychology; *Social Support; Social Work; War Crimes; Yugoslavia
Disciplines
Health Services Research | Primary Care
Abstract
This article presents a case that illustrates the vital role that social workers and other mental health and public health workers provided to support families following the 1999 conflict between Serb forces and Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo. A public health and social work team from Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights responded to an emergency postconflict situation by planning and implementing a community-based intervention that mobilized local mental health providers and established collaboration among national and international agencies, including the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, to provide a support network for families with missing family members. The intervention included assessment of local resources, training, fieldwork, professional development of local staff, and the establishment of long-term local responsibility and autonomy.
Source
Soc Work. 2004 Oct;49(4):587-94.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Social work
Related Resources
PubMed ID
15537181
Repository Citation
Keough ME, Samuels MF. (2004). The Kosovo family support project: offering psychosocial support for families with missing persons. Meyers Primary Care Institute Publications. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/meyers_pp/351