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This web page provides information on Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD. How CPT is administered is discussed, as well as the primary goals of the therapy and its effectiveness.
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This website provides an overview of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program and a searchable database to find local CERT programs. Recognizing the importance of preparing citizens, the Federal Emergency Management Agency partnered with the National Fire Academy to expand the CERT materials and made them applicable to all hazards.
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This webpage provides information on Prolonged Exposure therapy, which is a model designed to decrease distress from trauma.
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FEMA offers free independent study courses that can be completed for continuing education units. Courses cover topics such as emergency preparedness, developing and managing volunteers, and the Incident Command System.
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The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates and equips local teams to support their communities in and after disasters, providing services such as light search and rescue and disaster medical operations. This 6-hour course is designed to prepare individuals for a classroom-based CERT Basic Training course in their area, which is required before they can serve as CERT volunteers.
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HHS 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.
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The 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.
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TF-CBT Web is a web-based training course for learning Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. It includes streaming video demonstrations, clinical scripts, cultural considerations, clinical challenges and other learning resources related to TF-CBT.
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This article reviews different debriefings, including critical incident stress management, and evaluates research findings related to the model.
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The guide was adapted from the Psychological First Aid Operations Guide (2nd Edition), with permission from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD.
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This article discusses the increase in state and local government support for mental health first aid and suggests training employees to be instructors as a cost-effective way to train an agency.
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This article reviews advances that have been made in research and experience after 9/11 that have led to the development of evidence-based and evidence-informed guidelines and strategies to support the design and implementation of public mental health programs after terrorism and disaster. [Authors: Watson, P.J., Brymer, M. J., and Bonanno, G. A.]
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This guide provides an adaptation of the psychological first aid model that shelter providers can use when working with families experiencing homelessness.
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This 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.]
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This adaptation of the psychological first aid model is designed to be used when working with youth who are experiencing homelessness. The guide provides a framework and a model for direct care staff working in drop-in centers, emergency and transitional shelters, and group homes so they can better understand and address the needs of homeless youth who are often impacted by trauma.
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CTG Web is a follow-up training course to TF-CBT web that teaches therapists how to apply TF-CBT to cases of child traumatic grief. The course also includes streaming video demonstrations, clinical scripts, cultural considerations, clinical challenges and other learning resources related to TF-CBT and tailored for childhood traumatic grief.
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This publication reports on the Listen, Protect, Connect—Model and Teach strategy, an adaptation of PFA for schools by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. PFA is an evidence-informed, modular approach anyone can use to assist disaster survivors in meeting their needs and accessing resilience. The publication also reviews the type of training school staff members need to use PFA effectively.
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The National Medical Reserve Corps Mental Health Work Group recommends PFA as a standard model of mental health intervention in early response to disasters and other traumatic events.
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This document was created for parents and other caregivers to help them understand what their child may go through after a disaster, and it offers ways to help children following disasters. Basics are taught, and space is provided to write down a child’s answers to questions and behavior, as well as to come up with ways to support a child in feeling better and coping. [Authors: Schreiber, M., and Gurwitch, R.]
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This adaptation of the guide gives community religious professionals an introduction and overview to PFA, described as an evidence-informed approach for assisting children, adolescents, adults, and families in the aftermath of disaster and terrorism. The manual also provides information on core actions of PFA that community religious professionals can use following a disaster.
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This article examines the effect of brief Interventions, including critical incident stress management, following the World Trade Center disaster. [Authors: Boscarino, J., Adams, R. and Figley, C.]
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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 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 article reviews the use of cognitive behavior therapy in treating trauma survivors at risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder. [Authors: Bryant, R. A., Sackville, T., Dang, S. T., Moulds, M., and Guthrie, R.]
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