Definitions

  

Linkworkers: Significant people or responders who are already in their environment and are trained in psychological first aid.

  • Intervention linkworker: A professional who is already engaged through his/her job and likely to be in contact with individuals at higher risk of experiencing psychological distress
     
  • Employee linkworker: Any employee—city, corporate, commercial—who may come into contact with people at risk of experiencing psychological distress
     
  • Citizen/volunteer linkworker: Someone who is already involved in his/her community as a volunteer in community organizations, schools and other settings

Proximity relay agent: This person has a firm knowledge of his/her neighbourhood and has strong relationships with community organizations and resources. He/she acts as a liaison between the project coordinators and the community, in order to facilitate the implementation of the project and the monitoring of its needs.

Resilience: The ability of an individual or community to use its resources to adapt to a sudden disruption, and to eventually overcome the disruption, return to routine, and even improve its pre-disruption functioning" (Rapport et al, 2018).

Salutogenesis: A theory of health, proposed by Aaron Antonovsky in 1987, which states that in order to stay healthy, one must retain the ability to trust life. It is a positive perspective on health "that focuses on individuals' resources, skills, abilities and strengths, rather than on his or her weaknesses, limitations, disabilities and risk factors for disease" (Roy & O'Neill, 2012). This term refers to that which produces health, in contrast to that which causes disease, pathogenesis.

Sense of coherence: A protective factor that reflects how a person might view life and his/her ability to respond to stressful situations.

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