Psychology Beyond Borders  (PBB) is an international humanitarian organization who's mission is to alleviate the emotional distress and psychological disorders that can occur as a result of the fear and terror that many people experience during disasters, terrorism and armed conflict. We participate in a number of different activities that, when combined, allow us to  accomplish this mission.

Psychology Beyond Borders provides individual and community based psychosocial services that assist people in their recovery. We facilitate 'best practices' which means that we will provide services that have shown to work in other areas or show promise of having positive outcomes. We are committed to programs based on updated current knowledge and programs that are collaborative-that is they allow us to work with the local community members themselves as well as other humanitarian aid partners. PBB is also committed to programs that facilitate self-reliance and that promote sustainable mental health care. This simply means that we look for opportunities to teach the local community how to help themselves and continue providing services on their own wherever possible.

One component of all projects is evaluation and research. We use the information gained from our evaluation and research to help improve our work and also to assist us in making recommendations for future policies.

Psychology Beyond Borders facilitates policy development by using knowledge and research results to inform policy makers as to what services might be most helpful and sustainable in various communities under different circumstances. We also provide education and training programs that are conducted by staff, consultants and our large network of experts in the field of trauma and recovery. Education and training is one way to help local community leaders continue psychosocial services throughout affected communities for as long as they need.

Psychology Beyond Borders projects include:

• Field work addressing immediate, short-term and longer term psychosocial needs in communities devastated by trauma
• Research to contribute to the body of knowledge about psychosocial interventions
• Public policy development to address psychosocial needs related to disasters
• Education about best practice psychosocial interventions following disaster
• Creating an international network of support and information to assist those responding to the psychosocial implications of disasters