Psychological First Aid Crisis Preparedness Responding to Suicidal and Self Injurious Students ...

101 Pages·2016·7.04 MB·English

Crisis Team Training Local District Central
Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet
11.30.16

Psychological First Aid

Crisis Preparedness

Responding to Suicidal and Self
Injurious Students

Compassion Fatigue and Self Care
Crisis Team Training Local District Central
Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet
11.30.16

“Re-Think LA”
Eugene L. Hernandez
Administrator of Operations
Robert Martinez
Superintendent

LD Central Operations Team

Psychological First Aid: Guide for Schools
During Crisis Response
Mental Health Consultant, LD Central
Gustavo D. Sagredo, LCSW PPSC
213.241.8689
[email protected]

http://ccis.lausd.net and http://smh.lausd.net
213.241.3841
OBJECTIVES
• Engage in learning about the five components of
Psychological First Aid and ways to improve school
climate after a crisis.

• Reflect on ways that we can be effective while
working collaboratively with staff when facing some
of these behaviors on campus

• Help Link those students needing additional
supports to campus and/or community resources
Grounding
My Source of Strength

Think of someone or something that
impacts/ed your life in a positive way.

Share out (table).
Becoming Trauma Informed Schools
• Trauma-informed is an approach to engaging
people with histories of trauma that recognizes the
presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges
the role that trauma has played in their lives and on
their education.

• Being a trauma informed school seeks to change
the paradigm from one that asks about a student,
"What's wrong with you?" to one that asks,
"What has happened to you?"
If we don’t look for or acknowledge
trauma in the lives of children and
adolescents, we end up chasing
behaviors and limiting the
possibilities for change.
(Suarez, Flores & Zamarelli, 2007)
The Cycle of Resilience in Crisis
A = baseline resilience (functioning) F = improved functioning
B = event G = continued impairment (PTS)
A = baseline resiAlie =n bcea s(efulinncet iroensiilniegn) ce (functioning)
F = improved functioning
B =C e=v evnutl nerabBle = setvaetnet H = return to baseline
G = continued impairment (PTS)
C =D v =u lunesruaabll ec ostCpa it=ne v gu mlneercahblaen sitsamtes fail I = post-traumatic growth
H = return to baseline
D = usual copingD m =e uchsuaanli scmops ifnagil m echanisms fail
E = helplessness, hopelessness I = post-traumatic growth
E = helplessness,E h =o hpeellpelsessnsensess s, hopelessness
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Psychological First Aid
Everyone Plays an Important Role
Protect Model
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