Webplay

The webplay websites feature sites with helpful information about diversity this issue. Principles and practices related to respecting and celebrating diversity is a central component of interprofessional practice.

DEEP Center

http://www.deep.med.miami.edu/x32.xml

The Center for Disaster Epidemiology & Emergency ( DEEP Center ) at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine conducts training, research, and service in the areas of disaster behavioral health, special populations preparedness, and disaster epidemiology. DEEP Center programs are designed for public health, mental health, and responder professionals; health care workers; and the general public. The DEEP Center offers a range of on-line resources on various disaster topics. For more information on Disaster Resource Topics, please visit http://www.deep.med.miami.edu/x71.xml.

Creating Hope and Resolve in Troubled Times (CHARTT)

http://collegeprojects.cisat.jmu.edu/chartt/

CHARTT is a website sponsored by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Community Services Board and the James Madison University Department of Graduate Psychology. The website offers community members, professionals, and those helping them techniques for discovering their own strengths, helping others, and building bonds that promote hope and resolve in troubled times.

See especially

Resources
http://collegeprojects.cisat.jmu.edu/chartt/resources-websites.html

Materials
http://collegeprojects.cisat.jmu.edu/chartt/resources-materials.html

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is “to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.” You can enter your email address and begin to receive their newsletter. You can also register (no charge) and then down-load the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTS) research-based guidelines for working with children after a natural disaster or terrorist event. Hopefully, you will recognize that these guidelines differ from past recommendations. Recommended practices now state that mental health professionals should not focus on traumatic events, rather, their interventions should be neutral in content and focus on coping in a neutral context. Books, toys and activities focusing more directly on the traumatic event should be saved for later use in counseling/therapy of the survivors.

http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=hom_main

There are many useful resources on this site. From this page, look to the right hand side bar for the link to Psychological First Aid, 2nd Edition. You will be asked to sign in.