Think about the application of disaster mental health in the field. How is this skillset and application helpful?
Psychology in Disasters
ANSWER EACH QUESTION INDIVIDUALLY
- Think about the application of disaster mental health in the field. How is this skillset and application helpful? For example, how does it tie into Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how is that helpful in a post-disaster context?
- How would this skillset and knowledge help you in the work you do in emergency management? How can you apply these skills or where would they come in useful?
- Do you have any character traits or strengths that would make you especially effective at providing disaster mental health in the field? Any weaknesses are drawbacks that would make it tough for you?
- what is one element of Self-Care that you find helpful and that you do or would use to keep your stress levels under control during a response (whether as a responder or emergency manager)?
- Finally, please indicate what you found the most beneficial aspects of THIS COURSE (psychology in disasters)
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Ultimately, disaster mental health relates to all tenets of preemptive medicine. It is apparent that disasters are inevitable. It happens that disasters have greater impacts in the developing world than in the developed world. This can be attributed to the fact that, in the developed world, the preventive measures and strategies are strictly followed and implemented unlike in the developing ones (Gruebner, Lowe, Sykora, Shankardass, Subramanian & Galea, 2017). As such, the application of disaster mental health in the field entails helping people to be ready or prepare for disasters, help them learn on how to respond to the disasters, how to gain relief, the long term corrective measures to take and how to regain the normal state after the occurrence of the disasters………………….
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