Returning Home: Top Ten Challenges and Tips for Crisis and Disaster Responders
First published at redskyready.com Disaster response is exciting, challenging, exhilarating, and exhausting. Responders have the opportunity to implement skills drawn from deep experience and long hours of training. Or they can find themselves in environments and...
Information in Crisis: How to conduct a Crisis Management Briefing (CMB)
In the midst of a critical incident, it is vital that people get clear, concise, and regular communication. People need to know what is going on, what they can do about it, and what will be done for them. A Crisis Management Briefing (Everly 2000), or CMB, is an...
Critical Choices: Assessing Family & Team Risk
It is important to understand the unusual types of decisions people are forced to make in response to a crisis. These are not typically decisions people were making just weeks before the crisis hit. Not all of these are risk decisions; some are moral or ethical in...
Building Resilience Through Change; Navigating Transitions in Humanitarian Aid Work & Disaster Response
We live in a world where nothing under heaven is constant, except change. When we are returning from the field, leaving for the field again, or entering a new realm of life or work, there is always an onslaught of change. But change does not equal transition. Change...
Moral Injury
Moral Injury is a term that is starting to be more commonly used in relation to a collection of behavioral responses to traumatic events. The term developed from research studies conducted with military personnel who had witnessed, or been involved in, violent...
Leadership Communication in Crisis
One of the deadliest viruses on earth had now almost literally arrived on his doorstep. He had received a call from one of the docs on shift- it was confirmed. The patient that had just arrived in the outdoor, covered triage area around the corner from his house,...
