Community-Based Psychological First Aid. A Practical Guide to Helping Individuals and Communities During Difficult Times

✍ Scribed by Gerard A Jacobs

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Community-Based Psychological First Aid: A Practical Guide to Helping Individuals and Communities during Difficult Times presents a practical method for helping those in need in difficult times. No advanced training in psychology is needed to use it.

Injuries from disasters, terrorist events, and civil unrest are not just physical. These events also cause psychological trauma that can do lasting damage. Psychological First Aid (PFA) draws on human resilience and aims to reduce stress systems and help those affected recover. It is not professional psychotherapy, and those providing this kind of aid do not need a degree to help. Gerard Jacobs has developed this community-based method of delivering PFA over 20 years and has taught it in over 30 countries.

Along with the easy-to-follow method, Jacobs includes examples of how this works in action in different situations, and presents scenarios to practice. Unique in its approach of community engagement to train community members to help each other, this guide is an excellent resource for local emergency managers to engage in whole community emergency management.

• Presents a proven method for helping to alleviate the mental health effects of disasters, terrorist attacks, civil unrest, and other community stressors
• Offers a community-based model developed and taught by an international expert for over 20 years, requiring no advanced training or education in psychology to use
• Provides techniques that are adaptable to individual communities or cultures
• Outlines practices for self-care while helping others to prevent burnout
• Includes case studies, scenarios, and key terms to help facilitate community training

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter,Copyright,Dedication,About the Author,AcknowledgmentsEntitled to full text1 - What is community-based psychological first aid?, Pages 1-5
2 - On being a helper and providing CBPFA, Pages 7-15
3 - Individual differences in responses to stress, Pages 17-27
4 - Traumatic stress, Pages 29-36
5 - The stress of disasters, Pages 37-47
6 - Active listening, Pages 49-66
7 - Problem-solving, Pages 67-78
8 - Coping with stress, Pages 79-88
9 - Providing instrumental (practical) assistance, Pages 89-100
10 - Loss and grieving, Pages 101-109
11 - When and how to refer, Pages 111-122
12 - Privacy and ethical considerations, Pages 123-128
13 - Taking care of yourself while you support others, Pages 129-134
14 - Children and traumatic stress, Pages 135-158
15 - Older adults and people with disabilities, Pages 159-176
16 - Community-based psychological first aid with marginalized communities, Pages 177-188
17 - Community-based psychological first aid with rural communities, Pages 189-200
18 - Closing thoughts, Pages 201-202
Appendix A - Community-based adaptation of CBPFA, Pages 203-209
Subject index, Pages 211-217

✦ Subjects

Community psychiatry;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Public Policy;Social Security;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Public Policy;Social Services & Welfare