Early psychosocial intervention after disaster: Psychological first aid
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Psychological First Aid
“Psychological first aid” was first introduced conceptually in the mid-Twentieth Century; in the post-9/11 era, psychological first aid has emerged as a mainstay for early psychological intervention with survivors of disasters and extreme events. Dating from the 2001 National Institute on Mental Health conference on mass violence, psychological first aid is now the first, and most favored, earl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2188-2053,2188-2061
DOI: 10.24298/hedn.2015-2.3