Assignment: Secondary Traumatic Stress
Assignment: Secondary Traumatic Stress
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Assignment: Secondary Traumatic Stress
Psychology of Disaster Course Project
Many topics of interest and importance are covered during the course; Week 7, especially, provides an opportunity to explore several, often overlooked topics that are critical to our understanding in the discussion of the psychology of disaster.
For your course project, you are tasked with selecting one of the following areas, presented during week seven of the course, and examining a disaster event, using the selected area as the foundation of your work. The areas from which you may select include:
· Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers)
· Environmental Vulnerabilities and Considerations
· Critical Infrastructure Failures
· Disaster in School Environments
· In a 10 to 15 slide PowerPoint presentation, identify a recent disaster event (within the most recent 10 years), providing a description of the major events of the disaster leading up to, during, and after the event, to the extent possible.
· Incorporating the selected area above, discuss, with detail and support, how the area is illustrated in the disaster event.
· Explore how the selected element influenced disaster response efforts.
· Provide details of the ways in which these influences were observed.
· Discuss any barriers presented by the selected element in providing effectual behavioral health interventions.
· Prepare a plan describing how the challenges experienced might be more effectively navigated using the principles of disaster behavioral health learned throughout the course.
· Share the steps and resources you would deploy to overcome or avoid the challenges faced in the selected element.
In developing your work, be sure to rely upon academic, scholarly sources to support the definitions and recommendations provided. Ensure the plan presented is based upon evidenced based practices established in the field as effective in addressing psychological needs in disaster settings.
Work should be submitted in a PowerPoint file or other compatible file, and be 10 to 15 slides in length, excluding the required title slide and separate reference slide. Detailed speaker notes should accompany slides containing mostly bullet point data to include the details expected in the instructions above.
Scholarly sources should be cited both in-text and on the reference page of the submission. A minimum of three academic, scholarly sources are required to be cited in the work.
Submissions should be formatted per 6th edition (revised) APA standards.
| Criterion | Excellent | Satisfactory | Needs Improvement | Unsatisfactory | Score |
| Identifies and describes disaster event
50 points possible |
Student identifies appropriate disaster event, incorporating the selected special consideration with exceptional detail and support, demonstrating how the area of concern is illustrated in the disaster event. | Student identifies appropriate disaster event, incorporating the selected special consideration adequately, making the appropriate connections to the disaster event. | Student identifies a disaster event; more appropriate selections might have been made to further demonstrate one of the four special considerations identified in the instructions. | An appropriate disaster event was not identified or described. | |
| Examine disaster response
50 possible points |
Student examines the ways in which the unique element under examination effects disaster response, providing significant, meaningful details of the influences seen, and barriers to behavioral health care, demonstrating an of these issues. | Student examines the ways in which the unique element under examination effects disaster response, providing adequate information of the influences seen, and barriers to behavioral health care. | Student discusses the disaster response efforts; meaningful information related to the special element or other barriers were not present in the work. | A discussion of the disaster response efforts was not present in the work. | |
| Plan preparation
50 possible points |
The student prepares a detailed disaster response plan outlining the way in which challenges will be overcome, grounded in principles of disaster behavioral health. | The student prepares a detailed disaster response plan outlining the way in which challenges will be overcome; steps are relevant, but not grounded in principles of disaster behavioral health. | The student prepares a disaster response plan with loose structure and little semblance to plans following principles of disaster behavioral health. | A disaster response plan is not present in the work. | |
| Writing style
15 possible points |
Work is presented in a logical and coherent way. Writing is clear, articulate, and error free. | Work is grammatically sound with a few minor errors. | Work contains frequent grammatical errors. | Significant grammatical errors within the work severely affect the readability. | |
| Formatting
15 possible points |
APA formatting is complete, with all required elements identified in the instructions included within the work. | APA formatting is complete with some minor errors and/or exclusions of required elements noted in the instructions. | Work contains incomplete and inaccurate APA formatting. | Work contains no formatting. | |
| Total
180 possible points |
