Week 9 Assignment
Term Papers: Relief Organizations
Relief Organizations
Relief organizations often provide psychological first-aid following traumas. Much like medical first aid, psychological first aid aims to stabilize survivors in the immediate aftermath of traumas. Reflect on the response efforts of a relief organization with which you are familiar, following a specific terrorist attack. What strategies did they use? Were such strategies effective in mitigating the negative psychological effects of the terrorist attack?
For this Assignment, you will describe the role of relief organizations in the area of intervention and postvention. You then will select two specific relief organizations to compare, in order to understand the scope of psychological relief work.
