Crisis support in the event of accidents, disasters and difficult events: Strengthening people's resilience

Crisis Support is a basic book on crisis management written for prospective and working nurses, police officers, social workers, psychologists, doctors and others who encounter people who have been affected by difficult events in their daily work or in the event of major accidents and disasters. With vivid and concrete examples, Sara Hedrenius and Sara Johansson describe how to work with psychological first aid to strengthen people's resilience. The reactions and needs of children and young people are given extra care, as well as how staff can take care of themselves and each other.

- Psychological first aid - not debriefing

- Focus on both adults and children

- For healthcare, police, social services and more

- Evidence-based, clear and easily accessible knowledge

- Strengthens professional and personal crisis preparedness

The revolutionary development of knowledge in crisis support has completely changed the view of what actually helps children and adults in difficult events. Debriefing, for example, is no longer recommended in the acute stage - international consensus and the National Board of Health and Welfare instead recommends Psychological First Aid.
Based on current research and their own practical experiences, the authors of the book explain Crisis support how we react to difficult events, from serious illness to major disasters. With living and concrete examples, they describe how to work with Psychological First Aid to strengthen people's resilience. The reactions and needs of children and young people are given extra care, and how staff can take care of themselves and each other.

This basic book on crisis support is written for prospective and working nurses, police officers, social workers, psychologists, doctors, human resources specialists and others who encounter people in the acute stage of difficult events in their daily work or in the event of major accidents and disasters.

About the authors:

Sara Hedrenius and Sara Johansson have a B.A. and M.A. in psychology, respectively, with further training in psychotraumatology. They are active at the Red Cross, and have worked, among other things, on the tsunami disaster in Thailand and the terrorist attacks in Oslo and on Utøya. Sara Hedrenius survived the sinking of the Estonia in 1994.

Crisis support is fact-checked by Per-Olof Michel, associate professor of disaster psychiatry and former director general of the Knowledge Center for Disaster Psychiatry. The foreword is written by Ulrika Årehed Kågström, secretary general of the Swedish Red Cross

Said about the book:

"There is crucial knowledge here for healthcare, police and social services to absorb and understand. The book radiates warmth, calm and consideration."
Carin Götblad , national coordinator against domestic violence, former county police chief in Stockholm County.

"This is an important book. Read it! For the sake of the children and for your own."
Malin Alfvén , licensed psychologist specializing in children and parents, recipient of the Great Psychology Prize 2011.