{"title":"Experiences of chronic stress one year after the Gulf oil spill.","authors":"Danilea Werner, Chris Locke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the largest oil spills in world history happened off the Alabama Gulf coast in April of 2010. One year later the Gulf Coast community was still trying to recover and reestablish itself as a major source for the shipping, tourism, fishing and energy industries. Although this disaster did not physically destroy communities and families, it did take an economic and psychological toll. Researchers conducted focus groups with mental health professionals employed by Project Rebound, a state sponsored response to disasters in Alabama to explore the mental health effects of the Gulf Oil Spill on two gulf coast communities one year after the spill. Project Rebound clinicians were the front line of the mental health response to the spill and collaborated with community service agencies to provide support to adults, children, and families in the Gulf Coast community. The semi-structured focus groups allowed staff to discuss the extent of mental health treatment utilization as well as provide valuable input as to what can be done to better prepare communities and agencies for future disasters.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 4","pages":"239-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31686680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O Lee McCabe, Felicity Marum, Adrian Mosley, Howard S Gwon, Alan Langlieb, George S Everly, Michael J Kaminsky, Jonathan M Links
{"title":"Community capacity-building in disaster mental health resilience: a pilot study of an academic/faith partnership model.","authors":"O Lee McCabe, Felicity Marum, Adrian Mosley, Howard S Gwon, Alan Langlieb, George S Everly, Michael J Kaminsky, Jonathan M Links","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We describe an academic/faith partnership approach for enhancing the capacity of communities to resist or rebound from the impact of terrorism and other mass casualty events. Representatives of several academic health centers (AHCs) collaborated with leaders of urban Christian-, Jewish-, and Muslim faith-based organizations (FBOs) to design, deliver, and preliminarily evaluate a train-the-trainer approach to enhancing individual competencies in the provision of psychological first aid and in disaster planning for their respective communities. Evidence of partner commitment to, and full participation in, project implementation responsibilities confirmed the feasibility of the overall AHC/FBO collaborative model, and individual post-training, self-report data on perceived effectiveness of the program indicated that the majority of community trainees evaluated the interventions as having significantly increased their: (a) knowledge of disaster mental health concepts; (b) skills (self-efficacy) as providers of psychological first aid and bereavement support services, and (c) (with somewhat less confidence because of module brevity) capabilities of leading disaster preparedness planning efforts within their communities. Notwithstanding the limitations of such early-phase research in ensuring internal and external validity of the interventions, the findings, particularly when combined with those of earlier and subsequent work, support the rationale for continuing to refine this participatory approach to fostering community disaster mental health resilience, and to promoting the translational impact of the model. An especially important (recent) example of the latter is the formal recognition by local and state health departments of program-trained lay volunteers as a vital resource in the continuum of government assets for public health emergency preparedness planning and response.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 2","pages":"112-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31187207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amanda Edwards-Stewart, Zeba S Ahmad, John W Thoburn, Rich Furman, Ashly J Lambert, Lauren Shelly, Ginger Gunn
{"title":"Introducing embedded indigenous psychological support teams: a suggested addition to psychological first aid in an international context.","authors":"Amanda Edwards-Stewart, Zeba S Ahmad, John W Thoburn, Rich Furman, Ashly J Lambert, Lauren Shelly, Ginger Gunn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current article introduces Embedded Indigenous Psychological Support Teams (IPST) as a possible addition to current disaster relief efforts. This article highlights psychological first aid in an international context by drawing on mainstream disaster relief models such as The American Red Cross, Critical Incident Stress Management, and Flexible Psychological First Aid. IPST are explained as teams utilizing techniques from both CISM and FPFA with a focus on resiliency. It is currently theorized that in utilizing IPST existing disaster relief models may be more effective in mitigating negative physical or mental health consequences post-disaster.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 4","pages":"289-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31686685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reciprocal peer support (RPS): a decade of not so random acts of kindness.","authors":"Cherie Castellano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A model entitled \"reciprocal peer support\" (RPS) is introduced in this article to describe the peer support activity provided at University Behavioral HealthCare-University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in a variety of peer programs. More than 10 years of peer support have been developed, reviewed, and assessed by this writer in an attempt to clarify the \"lessons learned\" and encourage RPS as an effective approach to peer support service in the future. The Cop 2 Cop, NJ Vet 2 Vet, and several other UBHC peer support programs, which conform to \"best practices\" criteria, have been sustained and expanded based on the RSP principles discussed in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 2","pages":"105-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31188286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frederick C Nucifora, Italo Subbarao, Edbert B Hsu
{"title":"Changing the paradigm: a novel framework for the study of resilience.","authors":"Frederick C Nucifora, Italo Subbarao, Edbert B Hsu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 2","pages":"73-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31188282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole A Errett, Daniel J Barnett, Carol B Thompson, Natalie L Semon, Christina Catlett, Edbert Hsu, Howard Gwon, Ran D Balice, Jonathan M Links
{"title":"Assessment of psychological preparedness and emergency response willingness of local public health department and hospital workers.","authors":"Nicole A Errett, Daniel J Barnett, Carol B Thompson, Natalie L Semon, Christina Catlett, Edbert Hsu, Howard Gwon, Ran D Balice, Jonathan M Links","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study sought to investigate the relationship between psychologically-related attitudes/beliefs toward public health emergency response among local health department (LHD) and hospital workers and their willingness to respond to a pandemic influenza emergency scenario and a radiological 'dirty' bomb scenario, to inform workforce resilience-building interventions. LHD and hospital workers participated in a survey based on an established threat- and efficacy-oriented behavioral model (the extended parallel process model) that focused on collection of the aforementioned attitudes, beliefs, and self-reported response willingness. Odds ratios associating psychologically-related attitudes and beliefs with self-reported response willingness were computed Perceived levels of psychological preparedness and support were shown to impact response willingness, with more pronounced effects in the radiological 'dirty' bomb scenario. Compared to those who did not perceive themselves to be psychologically prepared, those who did perceive themselves as prepared had higher odds of self-reported response willingness. The relationship of these perceptions and self-reported willingness to respond in all contexts, both scenarios, and both cohorts was influenced by perceived self-efficacy andperceived family preparedness.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 2","pages":"125-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31187208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George S Everly, Daniel J Barnett, Jonathan M Links
{"title":"The Johns Hopkins model of psychological first aid (RAPID-PFA): curriculum development and content validation.","authors":"George S Everly, Daniel J Barnett, Jonathan M Links","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There appears to be virtual universal endorsement of the need for and value of acute \"psychological first aid\" (PFA) in the wake of trauma and disasters. In this paper, we describe the development of the curriculum for The Johns Hopkins RAPID-PFA model of psychological first aid. We employed an adaptation of the basic framework for the development of a clinical science as recommended by Millon which entailed: historical review, theoretical development, and content validation. The process of content validation of the RAPID-PFA curriculum entailed the assessment of attitudes (confidence in the application of PFA interventions, preparedness in the application of PFA); knowledge related to the application of immediate mental health interventions; and behavior (the ability to recognize clinical markers in the field as assessed via a videotape recognition exercise). Results of the content validation phase suggest the six-hour RAPID-PFA curriculum, initially based upon structural modeling analysis, can improve confidence in the application of PFA interventions, preparedness in the application of PFA, knowledge related to the application of immediate mental health interventions, and the ability to recognize clinical markers in the field as assessed via a videotape recognition exercise.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 2","pages":"95-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31188285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of mortality salience and conceptual focus in CISM providers: implications for mental health response to mass fatality disasters.","authors":"Hope E Morrow, Robert Haussmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On the basis of terror management theory (TMT) and cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), research has demonstrated that when individuals are experientially (rather than rationally)focused, mortality salience (MS) can engender world view defense in the form of increased in-group bias, increased favoritism toward others who uphold cultural values, and greater derogation of those who threaten them. The goal of the present study was to replicate previously observed effects of mortality salience on world view defense in a sample of disaster responders, specifically Criticallncident Stress Management (CISM) providers, and to examine the potential moderating effect of conceptual mode (rational versus experiential) on these effects. Sixty-two participants at the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation's 2011 World Congress were selected for participation in the study. Subsequent manipulation checks revealed that neither,manipulation (mortality salience: MS versus non-MS or conceptual mode: rational versus experiential) was effective. This failure is discussed in terms of the potentially mortality salient nature of conference proceedings that preceded data collection, the depletion of self-control resources required to maintain a rational focus on conference presentations, participants 'need to maintain their focus during future conference presentations, and profession-related practice effects that may have made it easier for some participants to maintain a rational focus.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 3","pages":"163-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31614249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Just show up: the importance of caring attachments in emergency services.","authors":"Raymond B Flannery","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Caring attachments to others are important for health, well-being, and longevity. This is no less true when EMS are providing needed medical services to victims at a vulnerable moment in the victims' lives. This article reviews the recent medical and behavioral science findings of the psychological and physiological benefits of caring attachments. Special attention is paid to the societal state of anomie and individuals' differing levels of optimal stimulation. The review then focuses on how attachments can be utilized by EMS as they provide services to victims and how these same health benefits may accrue to their colleagues onsite as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":81544,"journal":{"name":"International journal of emergency mental health","volume":"14 4","pages":"297-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31686686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}