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. 2020 Mar 26;10:1031. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.01031

Table 1.

Psychosocial Support Program Activities.

Activities
Day 1 - Welcoming the students and their parents and providing psychosocial support at the morning line through the school radio (psychoeducation about trauma exposure, symptoms, and consequences was provided through this activity).
- Survey of traumatized and injured students (full explanation about the survey and the aim of it was provided by the counsellors).
- Storytelling activity from students and parents. The aim of this activity is to let the students and their parents to express their feelings and emotions about the traumatic event.
Day 2 - Providing extracurricular activities and strengthening religious and positive attitudes and values. These can play a significant role in decreasing the effect of exposure to traumatic events.
- Provision of free drawing activity for students followed by discussion of their feelings about their drawings.
- Establishment of students' committees for volunteering works in each class.
Day 3 - Providing extracurricular activities and strengthening positive attitudes and values.
- Providing physical activities.
- Applying psychodrama and role play activities (parents actively participated in these activities).
- Volunteer work activities with students, teachers, parents, and social workers (e.g., visiting injured people in hospitals, families of those who have lost loved ones in the war).
Day 4 - Open meetings for parents, teachers, counsellors, headteachers, and social workers with local organizations working on social issues. Survey of severely traumatized cases.
- Variety of activities (quizzes, poems, art activities).
Day 5 - Conclusion of the activities: open-day exhibit displaying students' art works.