Mental Health Professionals
Federal Guidance - HHS
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Federal Guidance - HHS Collaborations
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Other Federal Guidance
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International Guidance
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Issues for Health Care Providers
- Psychological First Aid
- Building Workforce Resilience through the Practice of Psychological First Aid - A Course for Supervisors and Leaders (NACCHO)
- Psychologial First Aid (PFA) Tutorial (Univ. of Minnesota School of Public Health mobile app and web site)
- Providing Psychological First Aid (PFA) (PDF - 40 KB) (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Psychological First Aid (PDF - 2.9 MB) (National Child Traumatic Stress Network, National Center for PTSD, 2006)
- Psychological First Aid: Helping People Cope During Disasters and Public Health Emergencies, a Self-study Program on Psychological First Aid and Workforce Resilience (HHS, CDC, NYSDOH, HRI, Inc.)
- Listen, Protect, Connect Program
- Research results
- Ramirez M, Harland K, Frederick M, Shepherd R, Wong M, Cavanaugh JE. Listen protect connect for traumatized schoolchildren: a pilot study of psychological first aid. BMC Psychology 2013;1:26.
- Chandra A, Kim J, Pieters HC, Tang J, McCreary M, Schreiber M, Wells K. Implementing psychological first-aid training for medical reserve corps volunteers. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2014 Feb;8(1):95-100. [PubMed Citation]
- Program descriptions
- Responder Willingness to Serve during Radiation Disasters
- Balicer RD, Catlett CL, Barnett DJ, Thompson CB, Hsu EB, Morton MJ, Semon NL, Watson CM, Gwon HS, Links JM. Characterizing hospital workers' willingness to respond to a radiological event. PLoS One. 2011;6(10):e25327. [PubMed Citation]
- Sheikh S, McCormick LC, Pevear J, Adoff S, Walter FG, Kazzi ZN, Radiological preparedness-awareness and attitudes: a cross-sectional survey of emergency medicine residents and physicians at three academic institutions in the United States. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2012 Jan;50(1):34-8. Epub 2011 Dec 19. [PubMed Citation]
- Becker SM, Middleton SA. Improving hospital preparedness for radiological terrorism: perspectives from emergency department physicians and nurses. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2008 Oct;2(3):174-84. [PubMed Citation]
- Veenema TG, Walden B, Feinstein N, Williams J. Factors Affecting Hospital-based Nurses' Willingness to Respond to a Radiation Emergency. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2008 Dec;2(4):224-9. [PubMed Citation]
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Issues for Affected Populations
- Gouweloos J, DückersM, te Brake H, Kleber R, Drogendijk A. Psychosocial care to affected citizens and communities in case of CBRN incidents: a systematic review. Environ Int. 2014 Nov;72:46-65. [PubMed Citation]
- Engel CC, Locke S, Reissman DB, DeMartino R, Kutz I, McDonald M, Barsky AJ. Terrorism, trauma, and mass casualty triage: how might we solve the latest mind-body problem? Biosecur Bioterror. 2007 Jun;5(2):155-63. [PubMed Citation]
- Vyner HM. The psychological dimensions of health care for patients exposed to radiation and the other invisible environmental contaminants. Soc Sci Med. 1988;27(10):1097-103. [PubMed Citation]
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Other Resources
- Chernobyl at Twenty (NCRP Program Presentation No. 42), National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, 2006.
- Becker SM. Emergency Communication and Information Issues in Terrorism Events Involving Radioactive Materials. (PDF - 89 KB) Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. 2004;2(3): 195-207.[PubMed Citation]
- Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy, Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism, Butler AS, Panzer AM, Goldfrank LR, eds., Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2003
- Management of Terrorist Events Involving Radioactive Material (NCRP Report No. 138), National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, 2001. (See Chapter 5: Psychosocial Effects of Radiological Terrorist Incidents, pp. 54-69.)
- Becker SM: Psychosocial Effects of Radiation Accidents. In: Gusev IA, Guskova AK, Mettler FA Jr, eds.: Medical Management of Radiation Accidents, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press, 2001, pp. 519-525.