The pandemic had led to a mental health crisis. Thanks to a free online course from John Hopkins, you can get psycholgical first aid training to help. Our editors independently select these products.

It’s a mental health intervention designed to address a therapeutic deficit exposed by other terrible events — like the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nineteen ...

Psychological first aid is the idea that interventions that can be done in the wake of a traumatic event to promote resilience and healing. Psychiatrist Robin Gurwitch helped develop the protocol.

Mental health responders are using a strategy to help fire victims called Psychological First Aid — often compared to CPR for mental health. Its initial step is finding what a person needs right now.

New Delhi: Prompt psychological first aid needs to be provided to victims of natural calamities to minimise the impact of trauma, and people may also be trained to provide such first aid apart from ...

For people affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles, the needs aren't just physical. They're also emotional. To help, doctors, therapists and first responders there are practicing something called ...