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Psychological First Aid is uniquely applicable to helping others through COVID-19, mass trauma, and disasters. Keep in mind Psychological First Aid is not psychotherapy. Rather, it is a short-term ...

Psychological first aid is the idea that interventions that can be done in the wake of a traumatic event to promote resilience and healing. Psychiatrist Robin Gurwitch helped develop the protocol.

Survivors of the floods of Hurricane Helene and the wildfires of Los Angeles have something in common: Some got help from frontline workers trained in a practice called Psychological First Aid. It's a ...

A new study has shown that Psychological First Aid, training originally created for people to support others, can help healthcare workers in care homes improve their own mental wellbeing. First ...

For people affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles, the needs aren't just physical. They're also emotional. To help, doctors, therapists and first responders there are practicing something called ...