Psychological First Aid
Tue, 04 Mar
|Red Cross Training Room -- Gisborne
A workshop for both laypeople and professionals to teach the ‘best practice’ approach to providing initial emotional and practical support to someone who has experienced a traumatic event.
Time & Location
04 Mar 2025, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Red Cross Training Room -- Gisborne, 336 Palmerston Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
Psychological First Aid is a simple, yet powerful way of helping someone in distress, so they feel calm and supported in coping with their challenges, whether it’s personal, work related or affects the whole community.
Participants will:
Understand what Psychological First Aid is and isn't.
Become familiar with distress reactions - what can cause distress, what factors can influence the different ways people respond and recover from distress, and how distress differs from stress and mental illness
Have tools to manage our own wellbeing whilst supporting someone in distress
Provide PFA using ‘The Five Elements’ and the action principles.