Case%20Study

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Disaster Behavioral Health
Randal Beaton, PhD, EMT

• Case Study

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Major Winter Storm

• Several feet of snow with unusual and unpredicted
  blizzard conditions hit during one of the big
  high school basketball games.

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Major Winter Storm

• Several hundred friends, families and students
  are watching a basketball game in a local high
  school stadium when the roof collapses without
  warning.

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Major Winter Storm

• There are massive numbers (n gt 50) of casualties,
  the power is out and the roads are dangerous.

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Questions to Consider

• What are the behavioral health considerations
  when Fire and EMS workers first arrive on site?
• What are the behavioral health considerations for
  triage and on-site incident management? Crowd
  control?

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Questions to Consider

• What are the behavioral health considerations for
  First Receivers at the hospitals?

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Questions to Consider

• What are some longer-term behavioral health
  considerations for
• Survivors who were seriously injured?
• Lost family members?
• Survivors who are now afraid of the Idaho winter
  weather?

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Other Web-resources

• Web Sites and References related to this Training
  are available from
• www.nwcphp.org/edu/dbh