Understanding and Responding to Community Stress: A Guide for Environmental Health Workers
Understanding and Responding to Community Stress: A Guide for Environmental Health Workers
Description:
This short training presentation educates environmental health workers about the psychosocial aspects of intervening in a community with chronic environmental contamination.
Target Situation:
Environmental health workers who want to learn about the psychosocial aspects of intervening in a community with chronic environmental contamination.
Additional Reading:
ATSDR Report of the Expert Panel Workshop on Psychological Responses to Hazardous Substances; https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/risk/prhs/psych5ed.pdf pdf icon[PDF – 408 KB]
McEwen, B.S., & Tucker, P. (2011). Critical biological pathways for chronic psychosocial stress and research opportunities to advance the consideration of stress in chemical risk assessment. American Journal of Public Health, 101, S131-S139.
Resource Type:
Presentation slides
Source:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Publication Year:
2017
Target Audience(s):
Public health professionals, environmental professionals
3 Keys Framework
Main objective:
Recognize, Prepare, Partner
Secondary objective:
Legitimize Stress, Communicate Risk, Long-Term Interventions, Retraumatization & Chronic Stress, Community Engagement