jueves, 9 de enero de 2020

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response



12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Published: 12/2019. This 38-page toolkit offers guidance to child-serving behavioral health organizations and professionals who serve communities affected by disaster and terrorism events. It shares lessons learned from previous incidents, and how to get started using social media, including guidance on developing a social media policy and plan, constructing messages for various disasters and audiences, and managing social media accounts. It also includes sample messages to better fit specific disasters and terrorism events. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This five-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The information presented is intended to assist practitioners in non-specialized primary and mental healthcare settings in their work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, have suffered separation from land, family, and cultural identity. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This four-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with emergency services personnel. Given that cumulative trauma exposure is associated with increased risk of disorder, long-term emergency services employees may be more likely than new recruits to develop mental health problems such as PTSD. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This five-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with military and ex-military personnel. Military personnel are confronted with a range of experiences that may contribute to PTSD, including both military-specific events and traumas that also affect the general population. During deployment, it is not uncommon for military personnel to experience multiple traumatic events. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This five-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with motor vehicle accident and other traumatic injury survivors. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of injury survivors will go on to develop chronic PTSD. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This six-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with people affected by natural disasters. The nature of exposure to trauma in disasters varies considerably according to the type of disaster and the proximity of the individual to the causal agent. Some disasters, such as earthquakes and bushfires, affect a local community and impact on a relatively well-defined geographical region. Others may have a wider area of impact. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This five-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with older people. Older people with PTSD may be categorized into two classes. The first are those who experienced a traumatic event years or decades earlier, including sub-populations such as war veterans from conflicts such as Vietnam, Korea, and WWII; Holocaust survivors; and former refugee children. The second group are those who have experienced trauma relatively recently, as an older adult. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This nine-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with refugees and asylum seekers. Practitioners working with refugees and asylum seekers need to be aware of their own ethnocentricity, need to be culturally skilled and informed, and need to be open to different cultural perspectives on psychological problems. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. Published: 3/2019. This five-page information sheet addresses background issues and provides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, assessment, and treatment recommendations for practitioners working with survivors of sexual assault. It discusses common presenting problems in survivors of adult sexual assault and in adult survivors of childhood sexual assault, and how to work with children and young adults with PTSD from sexual assault. (PDF)

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