Effects of Disasters on First Responders

Effects of Disasters on First Responders/Behavioral Health Providers

There are several, often overlooked, areas that are critical to our understanding in the discussion of the psychology of disaster. For your course project, you are tasked with selecting one of those areas and examining a disaster event, using the selected area as the foundation of your work. The area selected is: Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of Disasters on First Responders/Behavioral Health Providers).
In a 10 to 15 slide PowerPoint presentation, identify a recent disaster event within the last 10 years. Provide a description of the major events leading up to, during, and after the disaster incident.
o Incorporating the selected area above, discuss, with detail and support, how the area is illustrated in the disaster event.
*Explore how the selected area influenced disaster response efforts.
o Provide details of the ways in which these influences were observed.
o Discuss any barriers presented by the selected area in providing effective behavioral health interventions.
*Prepare a plan describing how the challenges experienced might be more effectively navigated using the principles of disaster behavioral health.
o Share the steps and resources you would deploy to overcome or avoid the challenges faced in the selected area.
In developing your work, be sure to rely upon academic, scholarly sources to support the definitions and recommendations provided. Ensure the plan presented is based upon evidenced based practices established in the field as effective in addressing psychological needs in disaster settings.
(((Work should be submitted in a PowerPoint file or other compatible file, and be 10 slides in length, excluding the required title slide and separate reference slide. Detailed speaker notes should accompany slides containing mostly bullet point data to include the details expected in the instructions above.)))