Tips for Health Care Practitioners and Responders: Helping Survivors Cope With Grief After a Disaster or Traumatic Event
Tips for Health Care Practitioners and Responders: Helping Survivors Cope With Grief After a Disaster or Traumatic Event
Description:
This fact sheet provides tips on how to help community members cope with grief following a traumatic event or disaster. It offers suggestions for communicating with community members, defines traumatic and complicated grief, and describes what grief looks like.
Target Situation:
Public health professionals who want to communicate with community members coping with grief following a disaster or traumatic event.
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Source:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Publication Year:
2017
Target Audience(s):
Public health professionals, emergency managers, mental health professionals
3 Keys Framework
Main objective:
Recognize, Partner
Secondary objective:
Legitimize Stress, Community Engagement
Page last reviewed: March 23, 2021
Content source: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry