PHSA - HEMBC - Disaster Mental Health

  • Course Type: eLearning Course
  • Length: 3 hours
  • Category: Emergency Management

This course introduces the field of disaster mental health to learners interested in disaster response.

Topics include:

  • Types and phases of disasters
  • Bio-psycho-social responses to disaster
  • Mental health interventions in disasters
  • Resiliency in disasters
  • Self-care for disaster responders
  • Ethical issues in disaster response
3 hours
6697

This course is offered by HEMBC’s Provincial Psychosocial Services and Disaster Psychosocial Support teams and is intended for:

  • Mental health professionals and para-professionals considering participating in the DPS Volunteer Network
  • Disaster Psychosocial Support volunteers and other interested staff, volunteers, and affiliates.
  • Individuals who want to learn more about the DPS program and understand what psychosocial services are

Course content was developed and narrated by the North Carolina Disaster Response Network (NC DRN), along with the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Content is reproduced here with permission by the British Columbia Disaster Psychosocial Services (DPS) to address disaster response in BC.

Contact Information

Disaster Psychosocial Program

dpsprogram@phsa.ca