Resilience & Healthy Routine
Coping with emergencies, emotional support, and wartime daily routine
Coping with emergencies, emotional support, and wartime daily routine
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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… -
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… -
Helping Children Understand Tragic Events
A couple of tips that will help you if you need to talk to your children about difficult subjects. -
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. -
Healthy Nutrition in Emergency States
Healthy nutrition is important and helps reinforcing our physical and mental resilience. We have gathered here all the information, hotlines and phone numbers on the subject of nutritional counseling and… -
Keeping Children and Adults Busy
Keeping busy and active during crisis times carries therapeutic powers. It helps self-regulation of powerful emotions, relieve tensions and maintain resilience. We have gathered here some examples for suitable activities. -
Information Security and Cyber Security
Israel is currently facing many cyber threats to its citizens, organizations, and companies. These threats come in various forms, including network hacking attempts, phishing scams, fraud, and more. -
Substance Abuse
Stressful and emergency situation may increase abuse of such substances as drugs and alcohol. You should avoid abusing these substances to avoid addiction and you should seek professional help or…
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 in emergencies: commitment, encouragement, asking, and construction.
- Commitment and providing a sense of safety
- Encouragement to take effective actions
- Asking simple questions
- Constructing the sequence of events
Anyone can follow these steps to assist those who are stressed. The process is brief and straightforward.
1. 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 helping them; hold their hand to provide them with a sense of safety. You may also say, "You are not alone. I am right here!"
2. 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
3. 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?
4. 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.
Video: Psychological First Aid with Arik Ze’evi