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Grow through What You Go Through – Psychological First Aid
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a type of supportive intervention that can help people cope with stress after a potentially traumatic event. PFA can be used to create a sense of psychological safety within a team, and to provide team members with tools to support each other during life's challenges. By increasing team cohesiveness and individual resilience.
Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
Understand the resistance, resilience, recovery continuum as it relates a person’s experience of a powerful event
Understand and discuss the importance of providing peer psychological support during a powerful life event
Recognize common psychological, physiological, and behavioral reactions to powerful events
Explain the mechanisms of action of PFA
Practice the SAFER-Revised model of individual PFA
Understand and discuss the importance of self-care techniques for providing PFA
Competencies Covered: Human connection in a non-intrusive, compassionate manner, Stabilizing and orienting emotionally overwhelmed individuals, Connecting individuals to social support networks, Adaptive coping, Coping efforts and strengths, and Empowering people
Intended Audience: Public Sector Employees
Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
Competencies Covered: Human connection in a non-intrusive, compassionate manner, Stabilizing and orienting emotionally overwhelmed individuals, Connecting individuals to social support networks, Adaptive coping, Coping efforts and strengths, and Empowering people
Intended Audience: Public Sector Employees