Tools
The Disastershock Manual
The Disastershock provides a multitude of disaster coping resources. This resource is distributed to schools and communities in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Feel free to download and share with your local communities and networks.
The Disastershock provides a multitude of disaster coping resources. This resource is distributed to schools and communities in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Feel free to download and share with your local communities and networks.
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Chapters from School-Based Family Counseling: Transforming Family School Relationships (2013), Phoenix, Arizona: Createspace.
The following six chapters deal with interventions for helping children deal with traumatic events such as: terrorist attacks, murder, violence, death and loss. The authors use a School-Based Family Counseling perspective which emphasizes school interventions that also involve the family.
The following six chapters deal with interventions for helping children deal with traumatic events such as: terrorist attacks, murder, violence, death and loss. The authors use a School-Based Family Counseling perspective which emphasizes school interventions that also involve the family.
| chapters_on_helping_children_and_families_deal_with_violence_and_disaster.pdf |
Disaster Mental Health Core Competencies- CA Department of Mental Health
The Disaster Mental Health Core Competencies are comprehensive, widely supported, and set crucial guidelines for the training of disaster mental health service providers in ‘best practices’ and evidence-based interventions.
The Disaster Mental Health Core Competencies are comprehensive, widely supported, and set crucial guidelines for the training of disaster mental health service providers in ‘best practices’ and evidence-based interventions.
- Understand and describe key terms and concepts related to disaster mental/psychosocial/behavioral health preparedness and response.
- Communicate effectively.
- Assess the need for and type of intervention (if any).
- Formulate and implement an action plan.
- Demonstrate knowledge of responder peer-care and self-care techniques.
