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Annual Conference on Disaster Preparedness and Response 2016“Building a Resilient Health System” by HKJCDPRI & HKCCM
8th October, 2016Announcement of Policy Brief Session
World Mental Health Day 2016: Psychological First Aid – its applications in Hong Kong
Eliza YL Cheung, PhDClinical Psychologist, Hong Kong Red Cross
Technical Advisor, IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support
World Mental Health Day 2016 • World Mental Health Day is an annual event.
• Aims:
– To raise awareness of mental health issues across the globe
– To mobilize efforts in support of mental health
• Mental health problems are an extremely important issue worldwide due to their impact on the human rights and quality of life of those affected and their families.
• This year’s theme: Psychological First Aid (PFA)
Intervention pyramid
Intervention
pyramid for
mental health and
psychosocial
support in
emergencies
心理支援服務Psychological Support Service
To provide timely psychological support service to reduce the emotional distress and sufferings of vulnerable people and carers, who are affected by disasters or emergencies, and to foster their adaptive functioning and coping capacity.
OUR GOAL
History of developmentPsychological Support Service
2004: Incorporated Psychological First Aid (PFA) knowledge into First Aid Manual
2006: Provided formal Psychological First Aid (PFA) training to volunteers; started Psychological Support Project with agreement with the Airport Authority (AA)
2007: Provide PSS in other emergencies through mobilization of trained PFAiders
Psychological Support ServiceTarget Group
Hong Kong communities affected by local and overseas disasters, emergencies or community crises
MHPSS in Emergency by HKRC
Eg. Referral to clinical psychologists from Hong Kong Psychological Society and other long-term follow-up (Occupy-central PSS hotline)
Specialized services
Eg. Psychological first aid service
Focused, non-
specialized supports
Eg. Restoring family links (Haiyan Typhoon)
Community and family supports
Eg. Local disaster relief service workswith SWD in relief distribution
Basic services and security
From Evidence-based practice to practice-based evidence
• Cheung EYL, Chan, EYY, Lin, CLY, Lee, PPY. Clinical effectiveness of psychological first aid training among emergency responders in chinese population: preliminary results of 3-month follow-up. 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine; 2011; Beijing, China.
• Cheung EYL, Chan, EY, Lin, CLY, Lee, PY, Zhu, YJC. Preliminary results of psychological first aid capacity building program on coping strategies and mental health measures among emergency responders in disaster: results of 6-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Conference paper presented at 13th World Congress on Public Health; 2012; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• Cheung EYL, Chan, EYY, Sin, CKM, Wong, AH. Impact of psychological first aid training on disaster responding aid workers’ mental well-being: a cross-sectional study two months after the vessel collision accident on the national day. Conference Paper presented at 6th Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities 2014; Hong Kong, China.
Emergency responders who received training in PFA
reported significantly:
• better knowledge about disaster mental health;
• higher frequencies of helping behavior; and;
• better psychological well-being
than responders who did not receive PFA training prior to
the operation.
Evidence-based practice:Protocols of Psychological first aid (PFA)
Endorsed by 24 UN/NGO
international agencies
20 translations available on
the WHO website:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch,
English, Farsi, French,
German, Greek, Japanese,
Kiswahili, Korean,
Portuguese, Romanian,
Russian, Sinhala,
Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil,
Turkish, Urdu
World Health Organization, War Trauma Foundation and World Vision International (2011). Psychological first aid: Guide for field
workers. Geneva: WHO. Available at: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241548205_eng.pdf世界卫生组织、战争创伤基金会和世界宣明会（2011）。现场工作者心理急救指南。世界卫生组织：日内瓦。
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44615/17/9789245548201_chi.pdf
Psychological first aid Facilitation Manual
World Health Organization, War Trauma Foundation and World Vision International
(2013). Psychological first aid: Facilitator’s manual for orienting field workers. WHO: Geneva.
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/102380/1/9789241548618_eng.pdf?ua=1
世界卫生组织、战争创伤基金会和世界宣明会（2015）。心理急救：训练现场工作者的指导员手册。世界卫生组织：日内瓦。http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/102380/5/9789245548614_chi.pdf?ua=1
PFA guide and
facilitation manual
adapted for the Ebola
virus disease outbreak
in 2014
http://tinyurl.com/PFA-
Eb
PFA for ALL• 2015 Hong Kong Disaster
Preparedness Scoping Study
need for more trainingopportunities in PFA
• Among 676 healthcare workers interviewed, more than one third expressed a desire for training in PFA, deeming it a greater need than any other area of professional training.
Leaning J, Balsari S., Chan, E., Hsiao, K., Kashyap, S., Lam, D. Lam, R., Newnham, E., Patrick, K., Pham,
P., Yeung, M. Disaster preparedness in Hong Kong: a scoping study. 2015.
integrated plan for emergencypreparedness and response
Formal Response Plan
Auxiliary community
capacity
Monitoring, evaluation,
and research
Disaster Mental Health
as specialty
