Psychological Emergency Management
Course objectives
- To give an understanding of psychological emergencies occurring in various settings with case examples
- To revise and refresh psychopathology classification
- To train in mental health first aid, unconditional positive regard, and listening
- To develop SOPs and protocol for approaching a person at risk, develop contact lists for referral and follow up procedures
- To equip in mindful troubleshooting and crisis intervention
Week1. What is a psychological emergency?
Week 2. Distal and Immediate Situations, indicators, and presenting complaints
- Sharing of case examples
Week 3. Psychopathology re-visited
- Covering classification of basic mental health conditions
- Symptoms
- Consultation possibilities
Week 4. Identification of distress situations
Week 5. Psychological first aid
- Steps
- Protocol
- Team approach
- Referral
Week 6. Counseling concepts and practice
- Unconditional positive regard
- Attending, Listening, reflecting, summarizing
- Empathy
- What to say, when and how
- Information seeking ethics
Week 7 & 8. Internship + training
- To give an understanding of psychological emergencies occurring in various settings with case examples
- To revise and refresh psychopathology classification
- To train in mental health first aid, unconditional positive regard, and listening
- To develop SOPs and protocol for approaching a person at risk, develop contact lists for referral and follow up procedures
- To equip in mindful troubleshooting and crisis intervention
- Identify a person in distress and provide psychological first aid
- Seek support/advice from relevant professional/ clinical and health setting
- Exercise mindful care and monitoring
- Recognize one’s own capacity for providing care
- Learn and practice unconditional positive regard
Method and materials
- Lectures with presentations
- Readings
- Discussion boards
- consultative informal meetings
- Videos and webinars
Evaluation and assessment
- Principles
- Continuous assessment
- The flexibility of improving graded assignment with feedback
- Graded Demonstration
- Mode of assessment:
- MCQs
- Practical demonstration
- Readings and discussion
All National and International Individuals with no specific educational background requirement.