Questions:
1.
Psychosocial resource loss following the cited shooting was common, with 93.5% of participants reporting some degree of resource loss. On average, participants reported some loss of 4 of the 16 types of resources assessed. What were the most frequently reported lost resources?
2.
Describe the phases of behavioral and mental health reactions to mass violence?
3.
In thinking about an organization’s recovery, there is a temptation to focus narrowly on care-giving responses such as debriefings and counseling discussed above. Essential as these services are, they are only part of the picture. What actions of the manager or EPA can play a vital role in helping or hindering recovery?
4.
What are next steps you can take to confront your or your client’s implicit biases and reduce stereotypic thinking regarding.1. Counter-stereotypic imaging; 2. Individuating 3. Perspective-taking?
5.
If Communications Division receives a call from a mental health professional (as defined under Evidence Code section 1010), including other persons such as nurses and support staff members who call on the behalf of the mental health professional, who is reporting a threat that falls under the Tarasoff decision, the person taking the call shall follow what steps? |
Answers:
A. 1. Acute phase: Characterized by denial, shock, and disbelief. In this stage, behavioral health officials can help survivors by providing them with resources and information. Mental health interventions such as Psychological First Aid, debriefing, accelerated resolution therapy, Skills for Psychological Recovery, and social support are most useful at this stage (Finnegan et al., 2016; Wade et al.,2014). 2. Intermediate phase: Characterized by fear, anger, anxiety, transient panic, retaliatory attacks, difficulty paying attention at work or school, depressed feelings, and disturbed sleep. 3. Long-term phase: Characterized by coming to terms with realities with alternate periods of adjustment and relapse. This is the period when untreated behavioral health reactions might solidify into illnesses that would need specialized mental health or substance use disorder-related attention.
B. Motivation to get things done (52%), time for adequate sleep (50%), feeling that your life is peaceful (47%), and sense of optimism (40%).
C. The way the manager or EPA: 1. conveys information, 2. schedules responsibilities, 3. sets priorities, and 4. monitors employee performance after a violent incident
D. -Confirm the location of the subject. -Verify the identity of the reporting party. -Obtain as much information about the victim and the suspect as possible. -Assess the call for the level of danger or potential for danger.
E. 1. Remember or imagine someone from a stereotyped group who does not fit the stereotype 2. See each person as an individual, not a group member; pay attention to things about them besides the stereotypes of their group 3. Imagine the perspective of someone from your own (“Put yourself in the other person’s shoes.”) |
