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MODULE 4 Disaster Medical Operations
LESSON 16:   Disaster Psychology
FEMA Emergency Management Institute
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Lesson Overview
Personal Stress Reduction 
Team Strategies
Working With Survivors' Trauma
Lesson Summary

This lesson presents strategies for managing your own disaster-related stress and for helping disaster survivors with disaster trauma. During the classroom portion of the training, the instructor will explore these concepts in more detail.

Lesson Objectives

At the completion of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • Describe steps that you can take to relieve your own stressors, both individually and as part of a team.
  • Describe ways to help survivors with disaster trauma.

ClockThis lesson should take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
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