DISASTER AND MENTAL HEALTH THE FILIPINO CULTURE

INTRODUCTION • Pagsama (to accompany)

• Pagsabay (walk alongside with)
Acts of kindness and compassion can increase
• Pagdamay (offer support)
wellbeing and help their recovery. It can also help
• Pagdadala (carry the burden)
them overcome loneliness and isolation, build
healthy relationships and improve their self- • Pakikiisa (be one with)
esteem. • Pakikinig (to listen to)

There are many other ways to be kind and WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
compassionate to someone who needs help. • Is a specialized agency of the United
These can include: Nations that is concerned with
• being sensitive and sympathetic international public health.
• creating a positive outlook and instilling INTER-AGENCY STANDING COMMITTEE (IASC)
hope
• recognizing and validating positive • The IASC is chaired by the Emergency
changes Relief Coordinator (ERC) and facilitates
• helping them solve problems the leadership role of the UN Secretary
• helping to reduce stress General by regularly convening to
• helping with practical things, like ensure better preparation for, as well as
medicines and appointments rapid and coherent response to,
humanitarian crises.
• Volunteering
• Donating to a charity INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
• Smiling at strangers
• Is a specialized agency of the United
BENEFITS OF KINDNESS AND COMPASSION Nations responsible for worker’s rights,
work and employment-related issues.
Positive emotions fuels resilience. Resilient
people, studies show, experience more positive
• According to ILO & WHO, 5 of the 10
emotions in the midst of adversity compared to
leading causes of disability worldwide
those who are less resilient. These greater
are mental problems (major depression,
positive emotions, in turn, help resilient people
schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, alcohol
bounce back to precrisis levels of functioning.
use and obsessive-compulsive
• good mental health disorders).
• a stronger immune system • Together with anxiety, depression and
• improved happiness stress have definitive impact on any
• a longer life working population and should be
• improved relationships addressed within that context.
• reduced anxiety, stress and depression • According to ILO (2002), Employees’
mental health problems and their
impact on a enterprise’s productivity
and disability / medical costs are critical
human resource issues.

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 • WHO (2002) recognizes mental health as STIGMA
a top priority.
TWO KINDS OF STIGMA
• WHO (2016) predicts that DEPRESSION
will be the world’s most common illness • Social Stigma involves the prejudiced
by 2030 and suggests the global burden attitudes that others have around
of the condition will be greater than for mental illness.
illness such as diabetes, heart disease • Self-Perceived Stigma involves
and cancer. internalized stigma that the person with
• As of 2020, A minimum of 3.6 million the mental illness suffers from.
Filipinos suffer from a type of mental,
neurological, and substance use MENTAL HEALTH (RA NO. 11036)
disorder. • A state of WELL-BEING in which the
• Studies reported that the mental health individual realizes one’s own abilities
of Filipinos after Super Typhoon Yolanda and potentials, copes adequately with
has reasoned out the delay in normal stresses of life, displays
manifestations of mental instability. resilience in the face of extreme life
events, works productively and
fruitfully, and is able to make a positive
contribution to the community.

MENTAL HEALTH CONTINUUM MODEL

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BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL FRAMEWORK DUAL CONTINUA MODEL

An approach to describing and explaining how

biological, psychological, and social factors
combine and interact to influence physical and
mental health.

Mental Health is more than just the absence of

disease.

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UNDERSTANDING DISASTER TERMINOLOGIES

TYPES OF HAZARDS ERGONOMIC

PHYSICAL • result of the interaction of work design

and the human bod
• transfer of energy from an object
PYSCHO-SOCIAL
BIOLOGICAL
• social, environmental, and psychological
• Organisms that may affect human health
factors that can affect human health and
CHEMICAL safety

• Chemical substances that are harmful

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ACCORDING TO UN-IASC GUIDELINES FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT IN
EMERGENCY SETTINGS

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) refers to the myriad of external support provided by
individuals to groups or persons to promote their well-being or to prevent or treat mental disorders

PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT

Psychosocial Support non-biological support that aims to protect or promote psychosocial well-being ;
specific, planned and intentional (IASC, 2007)

Goal: primarily preventive and its beneficiaries are individuals who have not developed symptoms of
mental disorders

MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHSOSOCIAL SUPPORT

Goal: Promote and enhance Well-being (Ginhawa)

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UN-INTER AGENCY STANDING COMMITTEE MHPSS PYRAMID OF INTERVENTIONS

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DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH KEY PLAYERS

• Disaster responders • Barangay Health workers

• General Practitioners (GPs) • Occupational Safety and Health Officers
• Psychiatrists • Police, BFP, AFP
• Psychologists • Researchers
• Counselors
• Social Workers

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KEY PLAYERS IN DISM
• Department of Health (DOH)
• Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)
• Department of Labor and Employment
• National Disaster Risk Reduction and
(DOLE)
Management Council (NDRRMC)

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