TABLE 1.
Core Component Title | Description of Contents |
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1. Contact and Engagement | To respond to contacts initiated by survivors, or to initiate contacts in a non-intrusive, compassionate, and helpful manner. |
2. Safety and Comfort | To enhance immediate and ongoing safety, and provide physical and emotional comfort. |
3. Stabilization | To calm and orient emotionally overwhelmed or disoriented survivors. |
4. Information Gathering: Current Needs and Concerns | To identify immediate needs and concerns, gather additional information and tailor Psychological First Aid interventions. |
5. Practical Assistance | To offer practical help to survivors in addressing immediate needs and concerns. |
6. Connection with Social Supports | To help establish brief or ongoing contacts with primary support persons and other sources of support, including family members, friends, and community helping resources |
7. Information on Coping | To provide information about stress reactions and coping skills to reduce distress and promote adaptive functioning. |
8. Linkage with Collaborative Services | To link survivors with available services needed at the present time or in the future. |