This is a pre and post interventional study that aimed to determine the effect of training on the knowledge and skills of elementary school teachers on psychosocial processing as first responders to children ages 6-12 years old as victims of disaster in selected barangays in municipality of Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay Province. There are a total of 40 participants. The study developed a questionnaire to determine the knowledge and a checklist for the skills before and after the intervention. Results showed that when compared, there was significant difference between the means scores of pre-intervention (9.35), post intervention 1 (18.37) with a significant p-value. However when post intervention 1 was compared to post-intervention 2, there were no significant increase in the mean scores. For the skills, Annova for repeated measures was used to analyse the mean scores. Results revealed that there was an increase in mean scores from pre-intervention (2.58) to post-intervention 1 (18.88) with a significant p-value. However, when post-intervention 1 and post intervention 2 (20.88) were compared p-value was insignificant at (.252) level. The study concludes that training is an effective intervention in the enhancement of the teacher’s knowledge and improvement of their skills on Psychosocial Processing. Furthermore, study findings also revealed that the intervention is also effective in the retention of knowledge and skills of elementary school teachers.

Keyword: psychosocial processing disaster victim diplahan