ETS Training material
The ETS psychosocial support training material is developed to practice coordination and psychological first aid for situations in everyday life as well as major incidents.
The ETS Psychosocial support set can be used:
- to train psychosocial support persons in psychological first aid for psychosocial support
- to train in assessing what follow-up a survivor requires
- to train in organising psychological first aid for a large number of survivors
- to practice and evaluate the abilities of psychosocial support organisations within the health care services
The material consists of survivors of both genders, in various ages, family circumstances and life situations, to reflect a normal population of survivors of a major incident. They have been designed to reflect reactions to a potentially traumatic event where the survivors are not physically injured but has been exposed to this. The survivors have different reactions and different coping abilities. This demands individual assessment of the psychological first aid and individual assessment of the follow-up that is needed.
Included in the material is also signs to use on whiteboard to display a facility were to meet the survivors, magnetic staff symbols, different templates for helping setting up and evaluate exercises and stickers to be used to visualize actions that can be taken during psychological first aid.
A manual is included as a pdf-file.
The Psychosocial support set is available in two sizes; medium and small set. In medium set is all survivors and conversation cards included (301-400) and in small size 301-350.