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Mobile App Helps Post-Disaster Mental Health Responders

The next time disaster strikes, mental health and other response workers may find help in delivering psychological first aid (PFA) as near as their smartphones. “PFA is an evidence-informed modular approach for assisting people in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism: to reduce initial distress and to foster short and long-term adaptive functioning,” says the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, a codeveloper of the app along with the Department of Defense’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Wednesday, 12 September

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