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Psychology of Disaster Course Project

Many topics of interest and importance are covered during the course; Week 7, especially, provides an opportunity to explore several, often overlooked topics that are critical to our understanding in the discussion of the psychology of disaster. For your course project, you are tasked with selecting one of the following areas, presented during week seven of the course, and examining a disaster event, using the selected area as the foundation of your work.

The areas from which you may select include:

1. Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers)
2. Environmental Vulnerabilities and Considerations
3. Critical Infrastructure Failures
4. Disaster in School Environments

Question 1: Explore how the selected element influenced disaster response efforts.

Question 2: Provide details of the ways in which these influences were observed.

Question 3: Discuss any barriers presented by the selected element in providing effectual behavioral health interventions.

Question 4: Prepare a plan describing how the challenges experienced might be more effectively navigated using the principles of disaster behavioral health learned throughout the course.