<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parker, C. L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Everly, G. S., Jr.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barnett, D. J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Links, J. M.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Establishing evidence-informed core intervention competencies in psychological first aid for public health personnel</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Int J Emerg Ment Health</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Establishing evidence-informed core intervention competencies in psychological first aid for public health personnel</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">*Clinical Competence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">*Public Health Practice</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crisis Intervention/*education/methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Emergency Services, Psychiatric/*standards</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evidence-Based Medicine/*methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">First Aid/*methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Health Personnel/*education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Health Services Needs and Demand</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Psychology/education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">United States</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spring</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;dopt=Citation&amp;list_uids=16703846</style></url></web-urls></urls><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006/05/18</style></edition><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">83-92</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1522-4821 (Print)</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A full-scale public health response to disasters must attend to both the physical and mental health needs of affected communities. Public health preparedness efforts can be greatly expanded to address the latter set of needs, particularly in light of the high ratio of psychological to physical casualties that often rapidly overwhelms existing mental health response resources in a large-scale emergency. Psychological first aid--the provision of basic psychological care in the short term aftermath of a traumatic event--is a mental health response skill set that public health personnel can readily acquire with proper training. The application of psychological first aid by public health workers can significantly augment front-line community-based mental health responses during the crisis phase of an event. To help achieve this augmented response, we have developed a set of psychological first aid intervention competencies for public health personnel. These competencies, empirically grounded and based on best practice models and consensus statements from leading mental health organizations, represent a necessary step for developing a public health workforce that can better respond to the psychological needs of impacted populations in disasters.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16703846</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parker, Cindy LEverly, George S JrBarnett, Daniel JLinks, Jonathan MPractice GuidelineResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.United StatesInternational journal of emergency mental healthInt J Emerg Ment Health. 2006 Spring;8(2):83-92.</style></notes></record></records></xml>