Coping with Emergencies
Information and tools for coping with emergencies mentally
Information and tools for coping with emergencies mentally
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Emotional and Mental Support
If either you or anyone in your family experiences difficulties or stress in response to the war, we have gathered here for you the list of emotional support hotlines that… -
NAMAL Hotline: Therapist Finder for Family Members of Hostages, Missing Persons and Murder Victims
All the information about NAMAL Hotline that connects families of the missing, the abducted and the murdered with mental health professionals, for long-term psychotherapy and medical aid. -
Emotional First Aid in Case of Emergency
Guidelines for emotional first aid in stressful situations, and how to relieve someone's stress using the guidelines of the MAASEH method: commitment, encouragement, asking questions and structuring. -
Traumatic Stress Responses and Coping Strategies
This information will guide you on how to help yourself grow stronger and resume normal functioning or how assist family members who have been exposed to the traumatic events or… -
Post War and Disaster Traumatic Stress
Disasters can have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences for their victims. We have compiled information on a variety of beneficial intervention strategies that can assist people in recovering from stressful and… -
Parental Guidance on Managing Child Traumatic Stress
Anxiety has different manifestations among children of different age groups and between children of the same age group. All the information and recommendations that parents need for coping with anxiety… -
Traumatic Stress While Pregnant or Breastfeeding
All the information for women who are coping with stress and trauma while they are pregnant or breastfeeding. Tips for coping with stress, emotional support hotlines and more. -
Dementia During Emergency Times
Information and tools you should know in times of emergency. They will help you deal with stress and uncertainty and maintain and healthy and active life in people with dementia.
Emotional First Aid in Case of Emergency
Video: Guidelines for Providing Emotional First Aid in Traumatic Stress Situations
The Ministry of Health has devised four steps for providing emotional first aid: commitment, encouragement, asking, construction.
- Commitment and providing a sense of safety
- Encouragement to take effective actions
- Asking simple questions
- Constructing the sequence of events
Commitment: make the person facing you feel that you are with them
In times of distress, make the person facing you feel that you are committed to help them, hold their hand to provide them with a sense of safety. You may also say "you are not alone. I am right here!"
Encouragement: prompt the person facing you to take effective and simple actions
A sense of helplessness increased distress. You should encourage the person facing you, who is visibly distressed, to take such simple actions as:
- Contacting relatives
- Collecting contact numbers
Asking: ask simple questions that allow for thinking and choosing
You should avoid asking questions about the person's feelings, since overwhelming emotions exacerbate the distress. Instead, you should ask simple questions about the incident, for example:
- How long have you been here?
- Where do you need to go?
- Would you like to get there or would you like to call your family first?
- Did you arrive alone?
Construction: recreating the sequence of events
People in distress may suffer from confusion, they may have difficulty forming their thoughts into sentences and they do not remember what happened. Describe to them the sequence of events that took place in order to help them organize their thoughts and ease their confusion. Stress that the threatening incident is over.
Mental first aid on Efsharibari
Video: emotional first aid for traumatic stress victims (Dr. Tal Bergman Levy)
Video: emotional first aid for traumatic stress victims (Prof. Gil Saltzman)
Video: emotional first aid for traumatic stress victims (Dr. Moshe Farhi)