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The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress provides training on a range of healthcare, individual and organizational functions related to traumatic events, critical incidents, disasters and terrorism. Training occurs in the form of onsite consensus workshops, offsite training and distance learning programs and initiatives via teleconferencing, web-based and distributable material. This outreach is provided by the Center’s scientists and educators and its extensive network of worldwide collaborators. Training includes awareness level training, in depth education for organizational application, ongoing training to public leaders and responders and specific training in critical topic areas. The Center developed as part of its outreach Just-in-Time Training Fact Sheets, a “Push-Pack” of educational materials to guide national and international rescue and recovery activities of field workers, body handlers and teams deployed to the Southeast Asian Tsunami and Project Hope’s tsunami-bound volunteer healthcare providers and scientists aboard the USNS Mercy. The fact sheets contain information on health risks of body recovery, mitigation of psychological stressors for body handlers, grief leadership, and the unique circumstances of dealing with family and loved ones around missing and unrecovered remains. This information was also distributed to psychiatrists and other mental health workers in Sri Lanka, to Norwegian and Scandinavian government teams, Australian Trauma Teams and international academicians in the field of trauma and disaster.
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