This presentation was part of the 5th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.
Brief Description:
Mass casualties include school and public shootings, toxic accidents, weather disasters, airline crashes and others. The responders to these incidents save others but often carry with them the trauma of intense stress. This presentation describes the physiology and psychology of these reactions, effects on adjustment and performance, and operational and personal methods for stress management and resiliency development.
Three Learning Objectives:
- To understand how disaster events produce adverse reactions in responders
- Identify the short and long term of crisis stress
- Describe and demonstrate operational and personal methods for stress management and resiliency
