Psychological First Aid Guide for Children’s Advocacy Center Supervisors
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2024
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Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center
Abstract
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD PFA, on
which this guide is based, is an evidence-informed modular approach for assisting people
in the immediate aftermath of disasters, terrorism, or other critical incidents to reduce initial
distress and to foster both short- and long-term adaptive functioning. The version we are
adapting was created by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National
Center for PTSD (Brymer et al., 2006) and has the consensus endorsement of experts in the
field of disaster mental health. PFA is in use and has been disseminated by the American Red
Cross, the American Psychological Association (APA), the Substance Abuse Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and many others.
Because PFA is, in essence, a framework for providing a sense of safety, support, and
comfort for a person, it provides helpful ideas in the CAC setting after critical incidents.
Because the aim of PFA is the provision of support and comfort, it is not a clinical
intervention. It includes, rather, very concrete problem-solving approaches, which means
PFA-CAC can be applied by supervisors whether they have clinical training or not.
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critical incident, impact, supervision, secondary traumatic stress, peers, support, safety
Citation
Miller, B., Brymer, M., Louie, K., & Hangartner, K. (2024). Psychological First Aid Guide for Children’s Advocacy Center Supervisors. Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center.