Documents Translated by LoC

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

Disasters: Helping Children Cope (3 pg.) [Rus][Ukr]
News and Children (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Rom]
Terrorism and War: How to Talk to Children (3 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Pol]

Carey Institute

Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Early Childhood Development (25 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Pol]

CDC Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

CDC Crisis and Risk Communication Manual – a comprehensive guide to effective communication in disasters. [ Eng ]
Click here on our dedicated CDC CERC Subpage – we are continuously working to complete this essential toolkit in part or in full in as many languages as possible. Given our mission to help the messaging to get through to those in need, CERC manual is an essential tool we’d like to make available to as many communities as possible.

Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)

Addressing the Needs of the Seriously Mentally Ill in Disasters [Eng]
Advancing the Health of the Family Left Behind (2 pg.) [Rus] [Frn]*^
Asking for help: Do you know how? (1 pg.) [Rus]* [Ukr] [Frn]* [Tur] [Ara]
Caring for Children After Parental Death: Guide for Primary Care Providers (2 pg.) [Eng] ]
Community Support for Military Children and Families Throughout the Deployment Cycle (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Frn]]*^
Depression in Primary Care: A military healthcare perspective (3 pg.) [Ukr]]
Disaster Related Death: Managing Concerns About the Dead or Missing (2 pg.) [Ukr] ]
Grief Leadership: Leadership in the Wake of Tragedy (2 pg.) [Rus] [ Ukr ] [Frn]*^ [Ara]] – NEW
Healthcare and Humanitarian Aid Workers: Information for First Responders on Emotional Reactions to Human Bodies in Mass Death (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Frn]*^ [Tur] [Ara]]
Helping Children Cope During Deployment (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Frn] ]*
Helping children understand frightening events (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Frn]* [Tur] [Ara]] – NEW
Helping Others Calm an Acute Stress Response (1 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Rom ] [ Frn ]*^ [Ara]]
Helping people after a loss (1 pg) [Ukr] – NEW
Leadership Communication: Anticipating and Responding to Stressful Events (1 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Frn] ]*^
Leadership Stress Management (1 pg.) [Ukr] [Frn] ]*^
Managing the Stress of Children After a Crisis (2 pg.) [Pol] [Rom] [Frn] ]*^
Managing the Stress of War and Disaster (2 pg.) [Ukr] [Frn] ]*^
Military Leadership in Stressful Situations (2 pg.) [Rus] [Frn]*^ [Ara]]
Post Disaster Stress Management for Parents (1 pg.) [Ukr] [Frn] ]*^
Principles of Caring for Combat Injured Families and their Children (3 pg.) [Ukr] ]
Psychological and Behavioral Issues Healthcare Providers Need to Know when Managing a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (CBRN) Event (7 pg.) [Frn]* [Rom] ]
Psychological First Aid: How You Can Support Well-Being in Disaster Victims (2 pg.) [Ukr] ]
Rapid Psychological First Aid Help for You, Family, and Friends (1 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Rom] [Tur] [Ara]] 
Suicide Facts for Primary Care Providers Helping Service Members and Families Overcome Barriers to Care (2 pg.) [Ukr]] – NEW
Sustaining the Psychological Well-Being of Caregivers While Caring for Disaster Victims (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Rom] [Frn]*^ [Ara]
The Impact of Invisible Injuries (2 pg.) [Ukr] ]
Understanding Post Deployment Stress Symptoms: Helping Your Loved Ones (3 pg.) [Ukr]

Centre for Clinical Interventions

Facing your feelings workbook
Understanding distress intolerance (12 pp.) [ Ukr ]* 
Accepting distress (10 pp.) [ Ukr ]*
Improving distress (15 pp.) [ Ukr ]*
Tolerating distress (15 pp.) [ Ukr ]*

Lifeline Ukraine

Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC)

Anxiety in young children: A Military Parents’ Guide through Transition. A Coordinated Approach to Diagnosis and Support (11 pg.) [ Rus ]
Depression in youth: A Military Parents’ Guide through Transition. A Coordinated Approach to Diagnosis and Support (11 pg.) [ Rus ]
Developing positive coping strategies (4 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Fostering Resilience In Children (8 pg.) [ Rus ]
Helping your military connected child with daily stress and frustration (4 pg.) [ Rus ]
Raising a confident child in an uncertain world (6 pg.) [ Rus ]
Supporting Children through Natural Disasters and Loss (5 pg.) [ Rus ]
Web of Support Activity (1 pg.) [ Ukr ]

Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai Resilience Scale (MSRS) (1 pg.) [Ara] [Heb] [Rus] [Ukr] 

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

PFA: Parent Tips for Helping Infants and Toddlers after Disasters (4 pg.) [ Rus ]
Age-related reactions to a traumatic event (2 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Pol ]
Coping in Hard Times: Fact Sheet for Youth High School & College Age (7 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Helping school-age children with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers (1 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Helping teens with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers (1 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Pol ]
Helping young chilren with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers (1 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Parent Tips for Helping Adolescents (2 pg.) [ Rus ]* 
PFA: Tips for adults (2 pg.) [ Rus ]
PFA: Appendix A – Overview of Psychological First Aid  (4 pg.) [Ara] – NEW
PFA: All Apendices (53 pg.) [Ukr]
Psychological First Aid for Displaced Children and Families (12 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Pol ]* [ Rom ] [ Frn ]*
SPR: Field Operations Guide (86 pg.) [Ukr] – NEW
SPR: Appendix A – Gathering Information and Prioritizing Assistance (8 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Tur ] 
SPR: Appendix C – Promoting Positive Activities Worksheets and Handouts (6 pg.) [ Ukr ]
SPR: Appendix D – Managing Reactions Worksheets and Handouts (30 pg.) [ Ukr ]
SPR: Appendix G Preventing Setbacks Worksheet (Appendix G) (170 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Children: Tips for Current Caregivers (2 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Understanding child trauma and resilience for military parents and caregivers (7 pg.) [ Rus ]*
Understanding refugee trauma for primary care providers (3 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Understanding Refugee Trauma: For Mental Health Professionals (4 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Understanding Refugee Trauma: For Primary Care Providers (3 pg.)
Understanding refugee trauma: For school personnel (4 pg.) [ Rus ] [Pol]
Working effectively with military families: 10 key concepts all providers should know (4 pg.) [ Rus ]

Sesame Street for Military Families

Grief (4 pg.) [ Ukr ]

Vibrant Emotional Health

Disaster Behavioral Health Just In Time Training: Ukraine (36 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Psychological First Aid and Field Deployment Basics (41 pg.) [ Eng ] [ Ukr ] [Ara] – general introductory slide deck discussing Psychological First Aid, Skills for Psychological Recovery as well as Risk Communication Basics. A good place to start to familiarize yourself with common scope of work in disasters.
Refugee PFA Webinar (125 pg.) [Eng]  [Ukr] – NEW
Risk Communication Basics (26 pg.) [ Eng ] [ Ukr ] 
Self-care action list (3 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Rom ] [ Frn ]* [Tur] [Ara] [Heb]

Zero to Three

Turkiye and Syria Earthquake Assistance​

In response to the recent earthquake in Turkiye and Syria, Languages of Care has been working to produce a set of documents that might be helpful to be used after a disaster of such scale and nature, grouped together to expedite deployment.

Essential Content Useful in Disasters (from other organizations)

Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry: Protecting Health and Fostering Community Resilience – free comprehensive course on disaster psychiatry (English only)

1stA2T Guideline [Eng] [Ukr] – is a free chatbot that aims to “translate” the contemporary knowledge into practical and doable recommendations as it takes into account technical advances on one hand and the current nature of terror attack on the other. The idea was to create a guideline focusing on preparation towards and recommendations for what should (and should not) be done in the first hours, days, week and month after an exposure to traumatic event (and more specifically, terror attack). Content is provided and hosted by “First Aid To Terror.”

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings * – a comprehensive systems-wide approach to disaster managment – content and translation provided and hosted by the IASC [ Eng ] [ Ara ] [ Rus] [ Tur ] [ Ukr ]

Care for volunteers (72 pg.) [ Eng*] [ Ukr ] [Ara* ] [ Rus* ] – a helpful resource to create a structured approach to caring for those in the front line dealing with stress and trauma. An essential element of sustainable response. Covering PFA and Peer Support basics.

Psychological first aid: Facilitator’s manual for orienting field workers (88 pg.) [ Ukr ]*
Psychological First Aid: Guide for field workers (64 pg.) [ Rus ]* [ Ukr ]*

* – Partner-translated – we found a good translation and are listing it here for ease of access.
^ – Our clinicians review the final documents for accuracy. This one is still pending.

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