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Educators and school personnel can use this guide to determine how well their school is prepared to respond to the immediate and long-term psychological effects of a crisis or disaster on students, their families, and staff. It offers many practical suggestions for developing procedures and plans for mitigation, prevention, preparation, response, and recovery.
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This primer provides an overview of CISM as a comprehensive, integrative, multicomponent Intervention system to use in a wide variety of community and occupational settings. The document briefly describes the seven core components of CISM and emphasizes the importance of using multiple interventions within the CISM framework.
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This video provides information regarding traumatic grief in children, addresses the three main types of trauma reminders, and illustrates how families can experience the pain of loss and then heal. It features physicians and experts in the field and is appropriate for parents and others who care for children.
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Designed for a range of types of disaster responders, this pocket guide describes the cycle of stress in the body and highlights signs of stress. It also presents tips for managers to prevent and manage stress for themselves and their workers during disaster response, as well as offering simple, practical stress management techniques for responders.
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The authors used random telephone surveys to ask Hong Kong residents general and behavioral health-specific questions about the impact of the epidemic on their lives. [Citation: Lau JTF, Yang X, Pang E, Tsui HY, Wong E, Wing YK. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Mar;11(3):417-424. doi: 10.3201/eid1103.040675.]
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This fact sheet for healthcare practitioners contains information relevant after a terrorist incident. It includes self-care tips, pointers for assisting others, and challenges associated with behavioral healthcare work following a terrorist attack.
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This document is intended to help low-income and middle-income countries strengthen their preparedness and response plans, with a focus on the social and mental health consequences of biological and chemical attacks.
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This fact sheet describes how hurricanes can affect children, adolescents, and families; identifies common reactions to hurricanes in children; and suggests ways for teachers to support their students. The fact sheet emphasizes the importance of teachers’ taking care of themselves in order to be able to help their students.
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This video prepares practitioners to provide trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) to help children with traumatic grief. It features role playing of each component of TF-CBT.
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This guide discusses the issues of natural disaster recovery for women and their communities.
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According to its online description, the objectives of the Rural Healthy People 2010 project are to employ a survey of State and local rural health leaders to identify rural health priorities, to synthesize available research and other publications on these priorities, to identify and describe models for practice employed by rural communities to address these priorities, and to disseminate this information to rural communities.
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This 18-page guide presents steps for people with disabilities to take to prepare for disasters and other emergencies. The guide lists issues for people to consider in planning, key elements to include in plans, and information and tips about putting together a disaster supplies kit. It also covers maintenance of a personal preparedness plan.
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This tip sheet contains information for a couple reuniting after a member returns home from deployment. The authors list common relationship concerns and provide suggestions for "building a shared sense of purpose and stronger family."
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This study examined the psychological effects of quarantine via an online survey conducted with a convenience sample of 129 persons who were quarantined in Toronto, Canada, during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.
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This 11-page fact sheet has information on the diversity of the community of people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as suggestions for clinicians on ways to modify treatments to fit the needs of this population. Tips are included on preparing for therapy with a client who is deaf or hard of hearing, learning how to work effectively with an interpreter, and adapting individual sessions.
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People with developmental disabilities are more likely to be exposed to certain types of traumatic experiences, and certain types of trauma make developmental delays more likely. This guide shares statistics related to individuals with disabilities in the United States and incidence of trauma among children and adults with developmental disabilities.
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This document helps families prepare for a disaster or other emergency. It reviews information families should know before an emergency, such as the location of evacuation routes. It also helps families create an emergency plan and a family communication plan.
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This document helps families prepare for a disaster or other emergency. It reviews information families should know before an emergency, such as the location of evacuation routes. It also helps families create an emergency plan and a family communication plan.
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This fact sheet for mental health professionals who work with adults is designed to assist in fostering adults’ resilience in response to terrorism.
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This tip sheet identifies common reactions to an earthquake and offers tips for helping children cope.
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This tip sheet explains how hurricanes may affect families, and children in particular, and identifies ways that parents and other caregivers can help their children to cope after a hurricane. Also provided are tips for self-care for parents and other caregivers.
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This document informs teachers of common child reactions to earthquakes and provides tips on supporting children after an earthquake.
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This paper offers a statistical review of CISM [critical incident stress management] as an integrated multicomponent Intervention system. [Authors: Rose, S.C., Bisson, J., Churchchill, R., and Wessely, S.]
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This paper describes the Assessment, Intervention, and Trauma Treatment model, which integrates various assessment and triage protocols with the seven-stage Intervention model, and the ten-step acute traumatic stress management protocol. [Author: Roberts, A. R.]
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This fact sheet discusses five components of resilience in the workplace: leadership, culture, people, systems, and settings. [Author: Bell, M.]
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