Implementing psychological first-aid training for medical reserve corps volunteers

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-100

  Chandra, Anita ^a   Kim, Jee ^b   Pieters, Huibrie C ^c   Tang, Jennifer ^e   McCreary, Michael ^e   Schreiber, Merritt ^d   Wells, Kenneth ^a,e  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Los Angeles County Department of Public Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

disasters; emergency response; psychological health; resilience

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; FIRST AID; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; VOLUNTEER;

DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; FIRST AID; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84897371842     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2013.112     Document Type: Article

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