Palestinian Counseling Center

General Information

Type of Organization:

Local NGO

Acronym:

PCC

Governorate:

Qalqilya (Branch Office)

Establishment Year:

1983

Address:

'Azzun / Al-Safha Area / In front of the martyr Yasser A'rafat's Median School

Telephone:

09-2902462

Website:

www.pcc-jer.org

Fax:

09-2902463

E-mail:

pcc@palnet.com

Person in Charge

Name:	Ahlam A'mmar
Position:	Administrative Assistant
Telephone:	09-2902462
Mobile:
E-mail:	pcc@palnet.com

Staff:

Psychologist (1)

Social Worker (1)

Mission & Goals

Mission:

Goals:

Target Groups

Children

Youth

Women

Men

Families

Activities / Interventions

Information dissemination to the community at large
	Information on the current situation, relief efforts or available services
	Messages on positive coping
Facilitation of conditions for community local
	Support for emergency relief that is initiated by the community
Strengthening of community and family support
	Support for social support activities that are initiated by the community
	Strengthening of parenting/family supports
	Facilitation of community supports to vulnerable persons
	Structured recreational or creative activities
Safe spaces
	Child & Youth friendly spaces
Psychosocial support in education
	Psychosocial support to student teachers
psychosocial work
	Psychological first aid (PFA)
	Lining vulnerable individuals/families to resources
Psychological intervention & Clinical management
	Basic counselling for individuals
	Basic counselling families
	Basic counselling for groups
	Psychotherapy
General activities to support MHPSS
	Training. / TOT
	Technical or clinical supervision
	Psychosocial support for staff / volunteers
	Advocacy
	Research
Clinical management of mental disorders
	Non-pharmacological management of mental disorder

Time of implementation:	Morning
Place of implementation:	Center	Home	School	Clinic	Community
Geographical Distribution of the Services / Activities:	City	Village
Cost of the services provided:	Free	Partial Cost

Mental and Behavioral Disorders

Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
	Phobic anxiety disorders
	Obsessive – compulsive
	Acute stress disorders
	Emergency
	Grief
	PTSD
	Adjustment disorders
	Brief depressive
	Mixed anxiety & depressive
	Somatoform disorders
Disorders of psychological development
	Specific developmental of speech & language
	Scholastic skill
Behavioral & emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in child & adolescence
	Hyper kinetic disorders
	Conduct disorders
	Emotional disorders (separation anxiety)
	Behavioral & emotional disorders
Mental disability
	Mild
Behavioral syndrome associated with physiological disturbances & physical factors
	Sleep disorders
	Nonorganic eating disorders
Disorders of adult personality & behavior
	Specific personality disorders
	Habit & impulse disorders
	Gender identity
Organic, including symptomatic mental disorders
	Dementia in Alzheimer diseases
	Dementia in other diseases
	Other mental disorders due to brain damage & function
Schizophrenia & delusional disorders
	Schizophrenia
	Psychotic disorders
Mood (affective) disorders
	Manic
	Depressive

Training

Community capacity building of organizations base in the areas of, administrative, finance, public relations, strategic planning, planning activities and quarterly reports, as well as a range of training courses for staff and volunteers of the institutions on the topics of child development, stages of development groups, summer camps and community campaigns.
1 - Transfer models of individual therapy, non-formal education, big brother big sister.
2 - Capacity building of university students and recent graduates in the specializations of psychology, social work and education, from different Palestinian universities.
3 - Building the capacity of Palestinian institutions working in the field of mental health and social development.
4 - Short-term training programs for workers in the field of mental health and social development.

Research

1 - The psycho-social effects on families who are forced by the occupation authorities to demolish their homes in Jerusalem in 2011.
2 - The impact of the policy of houses demolishing on Palestinian children and their families, 2009.
3 - Protective factors of psychological burnout of the Palestinian teacher 2009.
4 - The psycho-social affects of the forced families to demolish their own houses by occupation authorities in the city of Jerusalem (2011).

Palestinian Counseling Center

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Mental and Behavioral Disorders

Training

Research