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This fact sheet can be used by anyone preparing for or responding to the mental health consequences of disasters.
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This mobile application helps disaster behavioral health responders provide quality support to survivors. With the SAMHSA Disaster Response Mobile App, responders can prepare for deployment by preloading useful resources on their mobile devices (e.g., treatment locator information), and then they can share those resources with survivors in the field.
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This web page from the APA website describes common reactions to hurricane events and provides tips for hurricane survivors for understanding and coping with these feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. A tip sheet also describes how psychologists and other mental healthcare providers can help those who have severe or prolonged reactions that disrupt daily functioning.
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This online fact sheet explains how disasters and their aftermath may involve traumatic incidents—and therefore traumatic incident stress—for emergency and other disaster responders. It highlights the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms of stress that disaster responders may experience, as well as tips and resources to assist responders in taking care of their own physical, mental, and emotional health.
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This course combines the knowledge of livestock producers and emergency managers to present a unified approach to mitigate the impact of disasters on animal agriculture.
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This fact sheet provides information for college students on coping after disasters or other traumatic events. It reviews common reactions survivors may be experiencing and provides helpful resources for survivors who may need additional information and support.
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This report describes the use of social media in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery by governments across the United States and around the world. The report features nine case studies from previous emergencies around the world and highlights ways in which social media can be used to gather information from communities about emergencies, engage communities, and help them better prepare for emergencies.
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Developed for disaster behavioral health professionals, this podcast defines and describes retraumatization, presents ways to avoid retraumatization, and suggests methods of coping if retraumatization occurs.
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This web page shares guidelines to help evacuation shelters ensure their space is safe for transgender people. These guidelines include respecting a person’s self-identification and responding to inappropriate behavior or harassment.
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This tip sheet lists common physical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses that people may have to disasters and other traumatic events. It also offers tips for stress management, as well as signs of the need for professional behavioral health assistance.
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This web page offers insights into managing livestock in various disasters, including floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires. The fact sheet provides practical advice on prioritizing safety, evacuating livestock, and addressing specific challenges posed by different types of disasters, ensuring the welfare of animals during crisis situations.
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This web page describes the foci of research on job stress conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), as well as how job stress research fits into the broader research agenda within and beyond NIOSH. The page includes links to a bibliographic database that includes job stress research, related resources, and other NIOSH web pages about stress at work.
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This video guides emergency management officials and staff in disaster planning for people with access and functional needs. It includes ways in which emergency management can involve people with functional needs in the planning process for their community.
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This free online training provides emergency planners and organizations with the tools to ensure communities withstand the long-term effects of emergencies and disasters. The training details the importance of resilience and how to strengthen a community’s resilience, as well as tools for mitigation, recovery, and applying lessons learned.
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This report covers how agencies and organizations used social media to support preparedness, response, and recovery from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It also describes challenges encountered and how they were addressed - and issues remaining to be addressed to help improve future use of social media as part of disaster management.
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This document is a resource is for emergency responders and federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial officials charged with communicating with the public in the immediate aftermath of an improvised nuclear detonation in the United States. It provides information, instructions, and messages that emergency responders can share with the general public in the initial moments following the explosion, before federal assistance arrives.
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This brochure offers tips for people with loved ones who are older adults to help them keep in contact with their older relatives and friends after a disaster. A planning mnemonic (INTOUCH) is provided, with steps to take for creating an individualized plan.
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This guide for increasing safety and building resiliency is directed at places of worship. The guide includes information on identifying threats and reducing vulnerabilities through prevention, protection, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
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The authors assess the long-term psychological effects on civilians who were exposed to sulfur mustard gas. Many civilians reported emotional distress even 20 years after exposure.
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In this article, authors report on the results of an online survey of 253 community residents with disabilities, each with a personal assistant. In the survey, residents provided information about their emergency preparedness, including whether they had an emergency plan. Those who had experienced a previous emergency and whose personal assistant had been involved in the development of their emergency plan had higher preparedness scores overall.
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This web page provides information on emergency wound care after a natural disaster, including basic steps that healthcare providers can use to asses and manage wounds and rashes.
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This fact sheet identifies common reactions to a disaster or other traumatic event. It provides tips for reducing stress and for following up if you feel overwhelmed by stress. It also lists resources for additional support.
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This web page discusses normal reactions to a disaster or traumatic event and steps that can be taken to cope and recover.
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Part of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide, this handout provides parents with tips for how to respond to an adolescent child after a disaster. The document includes adolescents’ possible reactions, how parents can respond, and examples of what parents can do and say.
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Part of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide, this handout helps parents understand how infants and toddlers may be feeling after disaster. It also lists ways for parents to help their young children cope with disaster. PFA is an evidence-informed, modular approach anyone can use to assist disaster survivors.
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