Practice Parameter on Disaster Preparedness

• 2013

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• Betty Pfefferbaum; Jon Shaw
PMID: 24157398DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2013.08.014

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This article discusses the best practices for assessing and managing children and adolescents during and after a disaster. It emphasizes the importance of interventions like psychological first aid, family outreach, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Schools play a key role in providing services to children, and medications are considered only in severe cases or alongside other treatments.

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Focus Areas: Everyday Emergency; Natural Disasters; Severe Weather; Trauma; Violence

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Physicians

Emergency Management Stages: Response; Recovery

Collection: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Mental Disorders; Child Psychiatry; Disaster Planning; Disasters; First Aid; Mental Health Services; Psychiatry; Risk Management; Psychological First Aid

Institutions: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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