NIMH releases results of study on mass-trauma mental health
Emergency Management Alert, February 15, 2008
How does one plan for the psychological fallout attending a disaster? Offer hope, for starters, says one expert.
The National Institute of Mental Health has released an article and commentary on disaster psychiatry that promotes offering psychological first aid as well as physical first aid. Featured in the Winter 2007 issue of Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, the study "Research-based Principles May Help Improve Mental Health Recovery Following Mass Trauma," says healthcare providers should develop and implement mental health care for large numbers of people following an emergency.
Said the authors, "We identified five empirically supported intervention principles that should be used to guide and inform intervention and prevention efforts at the early to mid-term stages. These are promoting: 1) a sense of safety, 2) calming, 3) a sense of self- and community efficacy, 4) connectedness, and 5) hope."
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