Psychosocial Support System in Emergency Settings-part3 —Japan Red Cross Society’s Early Phase Case of Great East Japan Earthquake—
Through the Great East Japan Earthquake, various types of the support activities were implemented by many relief organizations and volunteers in the affected areas. In this article, we focused on early phase psychosocial(PS) support activities by Japan Red Cross Society(JRCS) and reported two different ways in the coordination between JRCS’s PS staffs and other relief organizations due to each of two prefecture’s geographic features. In the case that there was PS center in the affected area, the coordination with other relief organization’s staffs showed tendency to be more smoothly than PS center in the inland. On the other hand, PS center in the inland was available for the coordination within JRCS and between organizations. We pointed out one of new stress as organization stress and of new relief concept as psycho-social-physical support in relief activities in disaster settings