Disaster, PFA, and PSP Flashcards
What is a successful adaptation to an acute stress, trauma, or chronic adversity?
Resilience
What are the several variables of which response of an individual is dependent on?
The event -> size, duration, & type
Individual factors -> hx, age, sex, actual and perceived level of support, coping skills
Community factors
What are the significant emotional states or behaviors related to the stress of disaster?
Distress response
What are significant outward manifestations of post-disaster stress?
Health-risk behaviors
What are the spectrum of psychological and behavioral response to disaster?
Distress response
Health risk behaviors
Illness
What are the 3 types of disasters?
Natural disasters
Technological accidents
Mass violence
What are the 7 phases of disaster?
Warning or Threat phase
Impact phase
Rescue or heroic phase
Remedy or Honeymoon phase
Inventory phase
Disillusionment phase
Reconstruction or Recovery phase
What phase of the disaster do victims feel abandoned and resentful?
Disillusionment phase
At what phase of disaster do victims recognize limits of available disaster resistance?
Inventory phase
What phase of disaster do victims feel a short-lived sense of optimism?
Remed or Honeymoon phase
What are the common symptoms manifestaed by females and males after a disaster?
females = PTSD & Major depressive disorder
Males = substance use disorders
What are the diff atypical response of children to disasters?
sudden arrest of developmental progress
loss of develpomental achievments
change in sleep, appetite, relationships
Decline in academic performance
What are the 2 steps in mental health disaster response?
Planning
Response
What is the most widely accepted intervention for populations following a disaster?
Psychological first aid
What are the 5 principles of Psychological first aid?
Promoting calm
Promoting sense of safety
Promoting self and community efficacy
Promoting connectedness
Instilling hope
Can you force people to accept psychological first aid?
No, but it is made easily available for those who may want support.
What are the diff psychological first-aid core actions?
- contact and engagement
- safety and comfort
- stabilization
- information gathering: current needs & concerns
- practical assistance
- connection with social supports
7, information on coping - linkage with collaborative services
In what phase of disaster do we do psychosocial processing?
Inventory phase
What is psychosocial processing?
Allows victims of disasters to experience relief by releasing emotions associated with distress
What are the aims of psychosocial processing?
To re-establish equilibrium and harmony ff a disaster
To regain personal control
To plan for the immediate days in the aftermath of the disasters and for their future
What are the diff activities of Psychosocial Processing?
Critical incident stress debriefing
Multiple grp PSP sessions - high risk of developing psychosocial disorders
Action-oriented PSP = community rehab
Team building = caregivers
Community organization
Psychosocial intervention/Rehabilitation
What are the 3 action principles of PFA?
Look, Listen, LInk
