Staff Training: Psychosocial Supports
| Title | Description |
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| Coping with the Emotional Challenges of Pandemic Influenza: An Online Guide for Individuals and Families Disaster and Terrorism Branch, NJ Division of Mental Health Services, NJ Department of Human Services |
Developed to help individuals prepare for the many emotional challenges of pandemic, slide presentation provides facts about pandemic, the psychosocial implications and how to cope. |
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Mental Health Implications of Public Health Emergencies - Public Health Grand Rounds
Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness, University of Michigan, School of Public Health |
Streaming webcast highlights the importance of mental health preparedness in public health practice to ensure effective behavioral health response following public health emergencies. To receive continuing education/training certificate register for course at https://practice.sph.umich.edu/micphp/index.php. |
| Mental Health Services and Their Role in Pandemic Planning, Response and Recovery
US Department of Health and Human Services |
Webcast on mental health services and their role in pandemic planning, response and recovery archived on February 18, 2009. |
| NCTSN/NCPTD Psychological First Aid (PFA)
National Child Traumatic Stress Network and National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Slide presentation provides an overview of the core concepts of the disaster behavioral health model for assisting individuals and families following disasters/public health emergencies. |
| Pandemic Influenza Awareness Program, Module 6: Emotional Challenges of a Flu Pandemic New Jersey Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services & Rutgers University |
Multimedia Module 6 of an online 6-module course on pandemic; this module focuses specifically on the anticipated psychosocial challenges of a pandemic and how to cope. |
| Psychological First Aid: A Community Support Model Minnesota Department of Health |
Selected by CIDRAP for its "Promising Practices: Pandemic Preparedness Tools" website; slide presentation introduces basics of psychological first aid (PFA) including PFA core competencies for public health workers. |
| Psychological First Aid: Field Operations Guide (2nd Edition)
National Child Traumatic Stress Network and National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Manual introducing the evidence-informed modular approach to assisting individuals impacted by disaster to mitigate impact and foster resilience. Available in multiple languages at http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=typ_nd |
| Psychological First Aid: Field Operations Guide (Medical Reserve Corps adaptation)
Medical Reserve Corps, National Child Traumatic Stress Network and National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Manual is an adaptation of the Psychological First Aid: Field Operations Guide to be used for training with medical reserve corps teams. |
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Psychological First Aid: Helping People Cope During Disasters and Public Health Emergencies - A Self-Study Program on Psychological First Aid and Workforce Resilience
Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness, University of Rochester Medical Center |
Online audio training introduces the basics of psychological first aid, its core components and how to employ these components/tools to enhance workforce resilience. |
| Psychological First Aid - Minnesota Community Support Model: Response to Pandemic Influenza Minnesota Department of Health |
Slide presentation describes the psychological stressors related to H1N1/pandemic and how to apply the principles of psychological first aid to mitigate the impact. |
| Surviving Field Stress for First Responders
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Manual to accompany webcast "Surviving Field Stress for Responders" or as a stand alone provides introduction to stressors responders face and coping techniques. |
| Surviving Field Stress for First Responders
National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and Public Health Training Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Webcast and related resources materials provide coping strategies and resources for dealing with responder stress. Target audience: health care providers, federal/state/ local public health and emergency management officials. |
| Traumatic Stress and Resiliency at the Unit/Team Level
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Slide presentation provides "best practices" informed overview regarding responder stress and resilience building strategies. |
| Workforce Resiliency
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of Washington School of Public Health |
Three module online course targeting public health workforce focuses on individual and organizational resilience in the face of disaster-related stress. |
| Working with Stress
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
This streaming DVD describes workplace factors that can cause or exacerbate employee stress, the health hazards of workplace stress and practical approaches to help ensure a healthy and productive workforce. |
