Psychological First Aid for sufferers of natural disasters

How would you react to losing everything or loved ones in floods or bush-fires like Australia has experienced recently or an earthquake like in Christchurch, Syria and Turkey. How does a community recreate what they had from scratch, without yielding to the weight of the disaster they have faced? Research released late last year looked into the benefits of Psychological First Aid or PFA.

Swinburne University Senior Lecturer, Dr Jessica Mackelprang,  was one of the authors of a work titled ‘Psychological First Aid principles within a community-led arts initiative: lessons from The Blacksmiths’ Tree’. which looked at the process of recovering from such disasters? Dr Mackelprang spoke with Jeff Bullen for On the Record.

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