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This web page focuses on SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, which aims to improve treatment and services for youth and families who have experienced traumatic events. It explores childhood trauma and links to resources for parents and caregivers, educators, health professionals, and more.
View ResourceFunded by SAMHSA and administered by the American Psychiatric Association, this initiative aims to advance the use of a person-centered approach to care to ensure that people with serious mental illness (SMI) find the treatment and support they need. For clinicians, SMI Adviser offers access to education, data, and consultations to make evidence-based treatment decisions.
View ResourceThis web page provides an overview of how a disaster or traumatic event may affect a person with serious mental illness (SMI) differently because of the way he or she experiences a disaster. It also offers information that suggests that people with SMI are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following disasters than people without SMI.
View ResourceThe Mental Health First Aid program, according to its website, risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone both in crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.
View ResourceHHS is the U.S. Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
View ResourceDeveloped for healthcare and social services workers, this set of modules includes links to videos, checklists, and toolkits to help professionals in health care and social services recognize their stress levels and engage in self-care and resilience building. The three modules guide participants through discussion concerning compassion fatigue, stress mitigation, and strategies for coping, and include links to relevant resources and trainings.
View ResourceThis edition of the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center’s research newsletter describes research on reactions children and youth may have to human-caused disasters such as incidents of mass violence, terrorist attacks, and technological disasters. The edition identifies mental health and substance use issues and conditions that may affect young people after human-caused disasters, as well as approaches and interventions to support them.
View ResourceDeveloped for health professionals and community leaders, this guide provides a comprehensive background about climate change and its impacts on individual and community well-being. It includes research-based strategies for addressing and supporting public mental health on individual and community levels.
View ResourceCreated by physicians for the public, this report explores climate change to bring attention to the risks and possible consequences it may have for public health. It analyzes the many challenges climate change poses and provides recommendations for protecting the community and reducing the possible effects of climate change.
View ResourceThis pamphlet defines and describes indirect trauma, which is sometimes also referred to as compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma. It explains how indirect traumatization occurs, highlights effects of indirect trauma, and suggests ways to cope.
View ResourceThis document provides an overview of expected psychological and physical responses among survivors of a tsunami and ways to cope.
View ResourceThis article provides a review and summary of four areas of grief that are important for psychiatrists: (1) uncomplicated (normal) grief, (2) complicated grief, (3) grief-related major depression, and (4) psychiatrist reactions to patient suicides. [Authors: Zisook, S., and Shear, K.]
View ResourceThis article describes the psychological symptoms that emergency physicians may see in patients in the aftermath of a terrorist event. It identifies mental health screening tools that may be used to refer patients to more formal psychiatric evaluation, and provides information on interventions that may facilitate and speed the recovery process.
View ResourceThe author discusses the re-traumatization that is possible among survivors of hurricanes who experience a subsequent hurricane. He presents common effects of a second disaster on people who have survived a similar one, suggests ways to prepare for these effects, and offers ways for journalists to help trauma survivors in their communities.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThis 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.]
View ResourceThis website provides a listing of publications and testimonies related to various behavioral health issues among military personnel.
View ResourceThe Provider Resilience desktop app gives healthcare professionals tools to guard against burnout and compassion fatigue as they help service members, veterans, and their families. The app allows users to complete a variety of self-assessments to understand their level of resilience and risk of burnout. Users must create an account with health.mil to gain access to the app.
View ResourceThis program aims to empower Hawaiian youth by providing mental healthcare information and referral services for teens in Hawaii. It provides opportunities, including events, videos, and resources, for teens to learn more about their social and emotional well-being and become involved in campaigns regarding substance misuse, suicide and depression, COVID-19, and more.
View ResourceThe ProQOL is a commonly used measure of the negative and positive effects of helping others who have experienced suffering and trauma, including disaster survivors. The ProQOL has sub-scales for compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
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