Course Description:
DEEP PREP: All-Hazards Behavioral Health Training is a one-day, highly-interactive program that focuses on optimal function for disaster/emergency workers responding to extreme events. Disaster behavioral health support incorporates generalist skills that can be integrated into the role of all response professionals. In the immediate and short-term aftermath of disasters, response professionals need to optimize their personal ability to focus and function, provide constructive support to colleagues, and provide basic behavioral health support to disaster survivors.
Target Audience:
DEEP PREP: All-Hazards Behavioral HealthTraining is designed for public health professionals and heath care professionals with disaster response roles. Community preparedness and response partners, especially first-responders (emergency management/EMS/fire/rescue/law enforcement personnel) and behavioral health professionals will find this course particularly relevant.
Course Content:
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Disaster Behavioral Health Principles
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Issues for Special Populations in Disasters
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Support for Disaster Survivors
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Resilience and Optimal Performance in Disaster Response
Real-world Applications:
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Responding to Pandemic Flu
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Responding to a Major Hurricane
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Responding to a Terrorist Attack
Methods of instruction:
Lecture, discussion, and group exercises will be used to present the concepts of disaster behavioral health and techniques of psychological first aid and allied interventions.
Program Agenda:
| 08:00 AM |
Registration |
| 08:30 AM |
Introduction: Resiliency |
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Disaster Behavioral Health Overview |
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Training Scenarios: Hurricanes, Pandemic Influenza, Terrorism |
| 09:00 AM |
Activity 1: Scenario Stressfulness |
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Activity 2: Risk Characteristics Related to Psychosocial Impact |
| 09:30 AM |
Exposure to Forces of Harm: Resilience Issues |
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Activity 3: Forces of Harm |
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Activity 4: Disaster Consequences |
| 10:15 AM |
Break |
| 10:30 AM |
Disaster-Affected Populations in Harm’s Way |
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Special Populations in Disasters |
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Stress and Mental Health Outcomes |
| 11:10 AM |
Activity 5: Disaster Stressors for Survivors |
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Activity 6: Special Populations in Disasters 1 |
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Activity 7: Special Populations in Disasters 2 |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 01:00 PM |
Psychosocial Support for Disaster Survivors |
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Activity 8: Supportive Early Intervention |
| 02:15 PM |
Resiliency in Disaster Response |
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Activity 9: Disaster Stressors for Responders |
| 02:30 PM |
Break |
| 02:45 PM |
Resiliency in Disaster Response |
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Activity 10: Stocking the Resiliency Toolkit: Individual Strategies |
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Activity 11: Stocking the Resiliency Toolkit: Organizational Strategies |
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Activity 12: Resiliency Toolkit: Double-Check |
| 04:30 PM |
Adjourn |
Course Faculty:
James M. Shultz MS, PhD
Director, Center for Disaster & Extreme Event Preparedness (DEEP Center)
Co-Director, Miami Center for Public Health Preparedness
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
RADM Brian W. Flynn EdD
Assistant U.S. Surgeon General (ret.) and
Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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