Reducing the Risk of Developing Mental Health Issues through Effective Crisis Management

Abstract

Emergency plans of medical response have developed and been implemented in most of the US communities; however, the majority of these medical plans doesn’t have formal intervention procedures of mental health. Usually, the communities ask a national group such as FEMA or the Red Cross to provide the psychological support needed to survivors. Even though these kinds of support are found helpful by many people, they lower the ability to offer expedient assistance, especially to those who need it the most. These external institutions may not be familiar with the population’s totality of social, economic, cultural, psychological, and institutional factors that shape people’s capacity for recovery. A community has the ability to self-replicate networks and practices of care that can build its resilience, which is common to see in the mutual efforts of aids which come to the fore during disasters.