Highlights from Emotional First Aid - A Field Guide to Crisis Intervention and Psychological Survival include the following:
-Basic crisis intervention and emotional first aid procedures
-Force protection procedures and resiliency information
-Information for adjusting one's mindset to the disaster scenario
-What to take with you when you go
-Special concerns about which each responder should be aware
-Reproducible reference forms, tests and tables for use before, during and after responding to critical situations.
Chapters include:
Chapter 1 – Traumatic Crisis and Its Aftermath: What are we up against?
Understanding the situation is vital to providing useful Emotional First Aid.
Chapter 2 – What to Do and How to Do It: Heading the need for speed.
Respond now. Crisis intervention needs to be timely in order to be effective.
Chapter 3 – Crisis Triage: Attending to those who can benefit the most
Those who can survive must survive. The ability to triage effectively is paramount to providing effective crisis intervention.
Chapter 4 – Intervener Survival: Indispensable Self-Care.
Effective force protection must be in place if effective emotional first aid is to happen.
Chapter 5 – Victim and Sufferer Survival: Helping to bounce back.
Resiliency will out.
Chapter 6 – Altered Standards of Care: A subject no one wants to talk about.
Prepare yourself for this eventuality or don’t get involved in crisis intervention.
Chapter 7 – Hostile Environments: Knowing what to get into – Knowing when not to go.
Prepare for the worst.
Chapter 8 – Preparation: “The Orange Bag Denial”
Get your stuff together know so you are ready for the call. Emotional first aid can’t wait for you to prepare.
Chapter 9 – Response Protocols: Waiting for the Word
If you are not called, do not go.
Chapter 10 – Law and Order: SCU (Special Crisis Intervention Understanding)
Even responders must know and obey the law.
Chapter 11 – Interpreters and Their Effective Use: Speaking the Same Language
Accurate communication is foremost to effective crisis intervention.
Chapter 12 – A History of the Crisis Intervention Movement and Discipline
Remember the past to avoid repeating past mistakes.
Become a trusted professional responder by being prepared!
Emotional First Aid Reproducible Worksheets
Reproducible Forms
Whole Person