Psychological First Aid: Top ten tips
Presented by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
Live webinar June 18, 2021 | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Michel Jones, MSW, RSW
This training is suitable for:
Medical Professionals: Nurses, Psychiatrists, Family Doctors
Direct Service Workers: Drop in workers, Shelter and Hostel workers
First Responders: Police, Firefighters, Paramedics
Client age category: For professionals that work with adult clients.
Level of training: Introductory
COVID-19 related content: The world seems more uncertain than ever. On a daily, sometimes hourly, basis we’re subjected to bad news from multiple directions — not just about the pandemic, the economy and racial issues, but about political scandals, civic tensions, fires, floods, conspiracy theories and more — without the in-person support of friends, extended family and colleagues because of the pandemic.
Description: With the current COVID-19 pandemic raging, many health-care workers are faced with clients who are experiencing increased mental health issues as well as physical issues. The pandemic’s psychological ripple effects are different from those of natural disasters, which last merely hours or days. The pandemic is like the never-ending story. What makes this more psychologically toxic is that we keep receiving new blows as resurgences and new outbreaks occur, doing more collateral damage to life and work.
This webinar has been developed to assist professionals to offer basic mental health support. Offering tips on how to approach clients who may be anxious, depressed and afraid, it will look at real-life case studies about how clients respond positively to basic mental health care.
Like regular first aid, Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a way of helping someone in pain — except rather than cleaning and bandaging a cut or applying ice to a sprained ankle, PFA tends to someone’s anxiety or distress in a way that will ease it and help restore that person's sense of equanimity.
While not trying to take the place of traditional therapy, this approach is designed to support a client's emotional distress in the moment. This is an interactive training and participants are encouraged to bring to the group case studies of their own to discuss.
Learning objectives:
- Discover ways to bring down psychological distress in the moment and strategies to help the client better manage their emotions going forward
- Learn ways to calm the body, the emotions and the distorted cognitions that may be driving a client's psychological anguish
- Help clients identify ways to keep safe and grounded in the face of toxic uncertainty of living with COVID
Registration fees: $125
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