Psychological First Aid Training

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Psychological First Aid Training

By Jennifer Chang, LES READY!

Date and time

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 · 10am - 12pm EDT

Location

184 Eldridge street

second floor speyer hall New York, NY 10002

Description

LES Ready has partnered with Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene's Office of Mental Health Disaster Preparedness & Response to bring this wonderful training to the Lower East Side Community and the LES Ready Coaltion members.


What is Psychological First Aid?

Psychological First Aid is an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. Psychological First Aid is designed to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping. Principles and techniques of Psychological First Aid meet four basic standards. They are:

1. Consistent with research evidence on risk and resilience following trauma
2. Applicable and practical in field settings
3. Appropriate for developmental levels across the lifespan
4. Culturally informed and delivered in a flexible manner

Psychological First Aid does not assume that all survivors will develop severe mental health problems or long-term difficulties in recovery. Instead, it is based on an understanding that disaster survivors and others affected by such events will experience a broad range of early reactions (for example, physical, psychological, behavioral, spiritual). Some of these reactions will cause enough distress to interfere with adaptive coping, and recovery

*coffee/tea and light snacks will be available

For more details on LES READY! Refer to our webpage www.lesready.org or contact our LES READY! Coordinators: Jennifer Chang atjchang@universitysettlement.org office: 212.453.4581 Or Lilah Mejia atlilah@goles.org office: 212.358.1231

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