Week 2 Assignment Phases of Disaster Response
For this assignment, briefly explain the five commonly accepted psychological phases of disaster responses. As a reminder, these include (1) the pre-disaster phase, (2) the hero phase, (3) the honeymoon phase, (4) the disillusionment phase, and (5) the reconstruction phase.
After providing a review of the phases noted above, examine individual and community responses to a specific historical disaster event of your choice, provide a summary of the psychological phases of disaster response displayed in the example.
Explain, with detail, how the selected phase(s) is appropriate to describe the observed behavior(s) from the example.
Close your work with a discussion of the role of cultural competence during any of the phases of psychological disaster response and how such awareness might affect the actions of behavioral health professionals as psychological first aid (PFA) is implemented.
