Using Professional Organizations to Prepare the Behavioral Health Workforce to Respond to the Needs of Pediatric Populations Impacted by Health-Related Disasters: Guiding Principles and Challenges

• 2015

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• Ginny Sprang; Miriam Silman
PMID: 26145465DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.82

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This article explains how professional organizations can help prepare the behavioral health workforce to support children during health-related disasters. The article outlines five guiding principles for this task, focusing on resilience, context, collaboration, and the unique needs of kids. It emphasizes ongoing training in dealing with biopsychosocial responses to disasters. By learning from past successes and challenges faced by these organizations, it suggests ways they can improve disaster preparedness and response efforts for future pandemics or crises affecting children's mental health.

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Focus Areas: Infectious Disease; Mental Health

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Bundles: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Behavioral Medicine; Child Health; Community Mental Health Services; Delivery of Health Care; Disaster Planning; Mental Health; Public Health; Pandemics

Institutions: University of Kentucky

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