Psychological First Aid is uniquely applicable to helping others through COVID-19, mass trauma, and disasters. Keep in mind Psychological First Aid is not psychotherapy. Rather, it is a short-term ...
EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room In a classroom that smelled like a campfire, a student at Pasadena Unified’s Sierra Madre Elementary School broke down when he saw a ...
Survivors of the floods of Hurricane Helene and the wildfires of Los Angeles have something in common: Some got help from frontline workers trained in a practice called Psychological First Aid. It's a ...
It’s a mental health intervention designed to address a therapeutic deficit exposed by other terrible events — like the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nineteen ...
This is the second in a series of three discussions of psychological first aid (PFA). Previously (see Psychological First Aid, Oct. 9, 2018), I introduced readers to the concept of psychological first ...
“Have at least a spoonful. You need strength to wait,” said families at the site of the Korea East-West Power Ulsan Thermal Power Plant boiler tower collapse accident that occurred on the 6th. Beside ...
The Romanian Red Cross on Wednesday informed the development of a national network of over 1,900 people trained to provide immediate psychological support in emergencies - from natural disasters to ...