Disaster recovery

touched on aspects of having leadership in place to coordinate not only the recovery, but also during down time to prepare. As a class we commented on what the difference is…

Administrator in the Office of Response and Recovery at the FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. As with FEMA’s other regional offices, Region IX has five separate divisions, each with specific duties and responsibilities.…

of any emergency response to a disaster is the protection of human life. This overarching goal is not limited to only the cataclysmic event; the goal extends to both the time before and the time after the event. At first, proper planning and training must be refined in order to put forth a seamless integration of specific training, skills, and experiences. Next, there must be a reliable telecommunications system in place to allow for a unified coordination of disaster responses. A major aspect…

positive path of operation after a disaster or other interruption in one’s life (Norris et al., 2007). It is a process wherein the person or community has the appropriate number and types of resources to return to a state of wellness and ability to function as they need to (Norris et al., 2007). Resilience can involve…

Psychosocial recovery is an important aspect of natural disaster recovery, it contributes to short and long term safety and health following first response crisis emergency. A bushfire has engulfed an entire town. There have been reports of many deaths and many casualties. Emergency response teams such as the ambulance, fire brigade, and police have completed their jobs. Three days after this disaster, a crisis intervention worker has been called to assist in the psychosocial recovery. This…

on a 1 to 5 category (National Ocean Service, 2017). A natural disaster is a major event that takes place from natural processes of Earth. A hurricane is considered a natural disaster that happened in my community and the disaster that happened in my community and the application of disaster management stages. Hurricane Sandy is a natural disaster. Hurricane Sandy was also a natech disaster. A natech disaster is when a natural disaster wreaks havoc to a region by damaging buildings and power…

them present at the disaster making promises which they may or may not be able to keep. During relief efforts in Burma after a massive earthquake, U.S. military provided support to…

According to Week 1 lectures, a public health disaster is “an event that overwhelms local resources and services beyond those generally needed to respond to emergency situations”. An effective healthcare response requires evidence and information to meet various and often unpredictable eventualities. The public health department should facilitate rapid assessment of adverse health outcomes, availability of healthcare infrastructure, appropriate organizational strategies, and selection of…

The Role of Social Support in Disaster Stress Imagine two vulnerable communities hit by a Category 4 typhoon. At the aftermath of that typhoon, there was no electricity available, all communication lines are down, food supply are running out and wherever you look at, there are uprooted trees and damaged houses. Everything was simply chaotic and the people are becoming hopeless. However, at the onset of recovery what makes the two communities starkly different from each other is the level of…

Davidson, A., & Straw, R. (2011) describe the counseling psychologist’s role in recovery operations following a disaster. Professional counselors can be just as effective in these roles counseling psychologists. Specifically, three roles identified by the authors stand out as applicable to professional counselors. First, counseling psychologists collaborate with community groups to assist survivors during a disaster, ensuring basic needs are met and to minimize feelings of insecurity following…