In emergency response terms, a critical incident it is a stressful event powerful enough to overwhelm the coping skills of an individual or a group. The stress related to such an event can give rise ...

The pandemic had led to a mental health crisis. Thanks to a free online course from John Hopkins, you can get psycholgical first aid training to help. Our editors independently select these products.

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Even as David Marín Cabrera helps his fellow Venezuelans deal with the stress of life under COVID-19 lockdown through his twice-weekly online sessions, the 45-year-old psychologist and his family are ...

Psychological first aid is the idea that interventions that can be done in the wake of a traumatic event to promote resilience and healing. Psychiatrist Robin Gurwitch helped develop the protocol.

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - When you think first aid, you probably think of responding to physical injuries, but Northern Light Acadia Hospital has been training organizations all over the state in ...

Mental health responders are using a strategy to help fire victims called Psychological First Aid — often compared to CPR for mental health. Its initial step is finding what a person needs right now.

New Delhi: Prompt psychological first aid needs to be provided to victims of natural calamities to minimise the impact of trauma, and people may also be trained to provide such first aid apart from ...

A new study has shown that Psychological First Aid, training originally created for people to support others, can help healthcare workers in care homes improve their own mental wellbeing. A new study ...

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