Everly, G. S., &Lating, J. M. (2019). Crisis Intervention and Psychological First Aid. In A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response (pp. 213-225). Springer, New York, NY.

The article entitled, “Crisis Intervention and Psychological First Aid” explains the importance of mentalprimary aid in the crisis and emergence situation. Throughout the article, the author explained the mind and body ‘s continuing fight to keep homeostasis. For example, the body fights to keep a physical homeostasis, or “steady state”. As a medicinal crisis is a condition where physical homeostasis has been disturbed by subsequent physical anguish and dysfunction, authors also examines the possibility of a psychosomatic similarity.

This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis. Crises related to development refer to those tasks that must be met in the transition from one stage of life to another, which are involved in the development process of any person. Crisis situations depend on the way each individual perceives them, interprets them, confronts them and gives them a meaning, this will influence the conceptualization that is made of the crisis, which will affect the way of seeing the world of the person from that situation.

Xi, Y., Chen, R., Gillespie, A. L., He, Y., Jia, C., Shi, K., … & Chan, E. Y. Y. (2019). Mental health workers perceptions of disaster response in China. BMC public health, 19(1), 11.

The article “Mental health worker’s perceptions of disaster response in China” explains the perception of health worker during the disaster response in China. It is important to highlight that the main purposes of altruisticeffort are: keep life and well-being, avoid and alleviate suffering, and ensure the treatment of people with dignity.  For this reason, it is considered necessary to see the emergency situation from the perspective of the public health (a population perspective), rather than from the clinical perspective. This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis.

The objective is to help the person to recover the level of functioning that he had before the crisis, the restoration of emotional balance and an improvement in his conceptualization of what happened to support the activation of the resources of coping that is required. This intervention is provided according to the moment in which the person is after the emergency, intervention in crisis can occur in the first and second instance; the differences between one and the other consist of the time that is required, who is providing it, where, the procedure and the goals proposed at the time of the intervention

Uhernik, J. A., &Husson, M. A. (2009). Psychological first aid: An evidence informed approach for acute disaster behavioral health response. Compelling counseling interventions: VISTAS, 200(9), 271-280.

The study was carried out, with the aim of exploring the representations of psychosocial involvement in disaster circumstances. In addition, searches were made on websites of international and governmental organizations to gather information related to documents that reported experiences and results. The analyzed approach models had alterations and resemblances, from the theoreticbeginning of the disaster and the essentialidea of the phenomenon.

This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis.It is the psychological intervention at the time of crisis, understood as a brief and immediate support to the person to restore their personal stability emotional, physical, cognitive and behavioral (social).The interventions of first instance are usually short and the help is provided by any person from the community that is present at the time the need arises in any emergency, this help can be provided by police, nurses, tellers at the banks, parents and teachers, among others. This intervention is usually carried out in the place where the emergency took place, or in the place where people have been transferred immediately after it, such as hospitals, school, home, street or work environments.

Wind, T. R., &Komproe, I. H. (2012). The mechanisms that associate community social capital with post-disaster mental health: A multilevel model. Social science & medicine, 75(9), 1715-1720.

In the article entitled, “The mechanisms that associate community social capital with post-disaster mental health: A multilevel model” explains that for many people a disaster involves a tragic personal situation where lives of loved ones, the home, property, health, or employment are lost. At that time, it is essential to arrange a series of policies and tangible activities that reinforce person, family and communal provision systems to rise the ability to cope with the crisis situation that mental health can go through.

This article is relevant to my paper because it is selected from scholarly article. This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis.It is undeniable that providing this help to people in crisis, will allow them to better cope with the events experienced and integrate them in a functional way to the plot of his life  and carry out this, is something that it is worthwhile and that every human being deserves to receive.

North, C. S., &Pfefferbaum, B. (2013). Mental health response to community disasters: a systematic review. Jama, 310(5), 507-518.

This is a review of narrative type literature, understanding this type of publication as one of the most suitable to define and argue the state or development of the art of a specific subject, from a theoretic or backgroundopinion; and due to the specificity of the topic on psychosocial involvements in catastrophestates, the documents were selected with intended criteria. The time selected for the search of documents was between different years. This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis.

de Jong, J. T., Berckmoes, L. H., Kohrt, B. A., Song, S. J., Tol, W. A., & Reis, R. (2015). A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies. Current psychiatry reports, 17(7), 60.

The article entitled, “A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies” explains that the social, political, cultural and economic conditions of the American continent combined with its complex geographical composition give rise to the development of different types of disasters due to the topographical region.

Therefore, tropical and hurricanes storms develop more frequently in the region of Central America and the Caribbean. The literature describes the psychosocial impacts are about of the most debilitating longer-term disasters on individual’sconsequences; However, while a substantialfigure of people involvementcircumstances of hazard and anguish, majority of them return to their everydayactions with normal functioning. This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis.

Roudini, J., Khankeh, H. R., &Witruk, E. (2017). Disaster mental health preparedness in the community: a systematic review study. Health psychology open, 4(1), 2055102917711307.

Disaster mental health preparedness in the community is a literature assessment which considered many of the past articles. Based on this, some authors investigated the characteristics of psychosocial interventions, concluding that the most common types of intervention in the face of a disaster are group care and workshops. In the same sense, other authors highlight the precariousness of organizations to deal with the catastrophe. In an emergency situation many people intervene as firemen, police, doctors, paramedics, etc.

Knowledge of psychological first aid is a very important additional part, apart from the specific training of their work, to be able to assist the victims. The authors are interested in being able to give a simple protocol for the initial approach to the patient in any emergency situation that may arise.

Bonanno, G. A., Romero, S. A., & Klein, S. I. (2015). The temporal elements of psychological resilience: An integrative framework for the study of individuals, families, and communities. Psychological Inquiry, 26(2), 139-169.

This literature points out that the fact of presenting previous vulnerability factors is associated with worse consequences for the psychological well-being of precious people, so the conditions of deficiency and gender alterations, added to the levels of experience to the tragedy, can be conclusive for the attendance of symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic strain disorders.

There is also evidence linking posttraumatic psychological disorders bodilychangesfor example fatigue, and headaches.This article is interesting to know about the use of psychology in the crisis. The goal of psychological first aid is to restore emotional balance , the objective is to help the person to take concrete steps towards coping with the crisis, which includes the proper management of feelings and reactions, the control of subjective components of the situation and start the process of solving the problem.

References

Bonanno, G. A., Romero, S. A., & Klein, S. I. (2015). The temporal elements of psychological resilience: An integrative framework for the study of individuals, families, and communities. Psychological Inquiry, 26(2), 139-169.

Everly, G. S., &Lating, J. M. (2019). Crisis Intervention and Psychological First Aid. In A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response (pp. 213-225). Springer, New York, NY.

North, C. S., &Pfefferbaum, B. (2013). Mental health response to community disasters: a systematic review. Jama, 310(5), 507-518.

de Jong, J. T., Berckmoes, L. H., Kohrt, B. A., Song, S. J., Tol, W. A., & Reis, R. (2015). A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies. Current psychiatry reports, 17(7), 60.

Roudini, J., Khankeh, H. R., &Witruk, E. (2017). Disaster mental health preparedness in the community: a systematic review study. Health psychology open, 4(1), 2055102917711307.

Uhernik, J. A., &Husson, M. A. (2009). Psychological first aid: An evidence informed approach for acute disaster behavioral health response. Compelling counseling interventions: VISTAS, 200(9), 271-280.

Wind, T. R., &Komproe, I. H. (2012). The mechanisms that associate community social capital with post-disaster mental health: A multilevel model. Social science & medicine, 75(9), 1715-1720.