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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Psychological First Aid by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

Learn to provide psychological first aid to people in an emergency by employing the RAPID model: Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition. Utilizing the RAPID model (Reflective listening, Assessment of needs, Prioritization, Intervention, and Disposition), this specialized course provides perspectives on injuries and trauma that are beyond those physical in nature. The RAPID model is readily applicable to public health settings, the workplace, the military, faith-based organizations, mass disaster venues, and even the demands of more commonplace critical events, e.g., dealing with the psychological aftermath of accidents, robberies, suicide, homicide, or community violence. In addition, the RAPID model has been found effective in promoting personal and community resilience. Participants will increase their abilities to: - Discuss key concepts related to PFA - Listen reflectively - Differentiate benign, non-incapacitating psychological/ behavioral crisis reactions from more severe, potentially incapacitating, crisis reactions - Prioritize (triage) psychological/ behavioral crisis reactions - Mitigate acute distress and dysfunction, as appropriate - Recognize when to facilitate access to further mental health support - Practice self-care Developed in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Open Education Lab....

Top reviews

ED

May 22, 2020

I am very happy and satisfied with the course program. In fact, I am excited to apply what I have learned and also looking forward to enroll in another course. Thank you for this learning opportunity!

PG

Feb 9, 2017

A very helpful course and full of practical information for persons interfered with disaster relief and crisis intervention as this course has a well- planned syllabus and really informative vignettes

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By Scott B

Sep 22, 2016

This course is very well written and the videos are engaging. The professor is extremely knowledgeable and gives concrete examples of proper and improper interactions between first responders and in crisis individuals.

By David L B

Dec 10, 2023

This course was very informative I enjoyed it. I'll be going on to sign up for the Science of Wellbeing, Critical Thinking, Emotional, and Social Intelligence, Effective Problem Solving, and other psychology courses.

By Manoj R

Jul 6, 2021

very good course. It opens a new dimension of pyschology and teaches skills as to how people adversely affected due to natural crisis and terrorist attacks can be normalized and further recommended to suitale action.

By Romaisa, M S D o P U

Jul 18, 2020

Every step is explained in a very simple and lucid manner. Simulation was an effective way to learn and understand the core essence of the topics. I've learnt so many things from this course ♥️. Thanks for everything.

By Paballo M

Jun 14, 2020

I'm very happy that I choose to do this course it was very interesting and fun to do the material were so helpful the lectures were fantastic I'm really looking forward to be in the field and help those in need of PFA

By EC

Apr 13, 2020

The speaker has a voice that leads to understanding even if our mother language is not English !

Moreover, the structure and the frequent reminder and wrap up are indeed the best tools in a 5 weeks course.

Thanks !

Elena

By Putu G P R M

Apr 3, 2020

I learned so much from this insightful and fruitful course. I hope I can use knowledge I got from this course to help those in need, especially in this pandemic of COVID-19 as a volunteer counselor. Thank you so much!

By Daniel T

Jan 20, 2023

This has been absolutelly phenomenal course for me to take. I enjoyed the Simulations, the Assesments where quite tricky at some point and have really challenged me in my views and my previous thinking! Great course!

By Sonja B

Oct 5, 2020

One of the best courses I have ever taken in this genre. The simulations were an excellent tool and the presenter was superb. If I could have I would have enrolled in a more advanced course on this topic with George.

By Laura G S C

Jul 28, 2020

Como estudiante en formación de psicología, siento que este curso me ha brindado la información y conocimiento para aplicar estas técnicas a la vida real cuando llegue el momento. Me siento muy contenta, mil gracias.

By Brian L

Jun 18, 2020

As someone who is not very experienced with dealing with trauma, I found Dr. Everly's lectures to be very straightforward, easy to understand and engaging. I can now use these practices in my daily life. Thank you!

By Myka J

May 28, 2020

George is an engaging lecturer and I feel much more confident in my abilities to assess and help people in distress. I will be using the information I learned in this course in my nursing practice. Thank you so much!

By Mylyn M

Feb 4, 2021

I would definitely recommend this to my colleague it helps me a lot both professionally and personal. I got a better understanding on the struggles and challenges of people who has experience disaster in their life.

By Marcia S

Nov 20, 2020

This was a great course that open a window into the world of PFA for me and made me more aware about how to deal with people who may need a support system after facing a disaster or some event that can be traumatic.

By Jennifer E

Apr 26, 2020

I found the course extremely informative and helpful. I will say I am not sure that the test questions were particularly well drafted. They did not always seem to follow along with what was presented in the session.

By Kemi A

Apr 25, 2020

This course was an excellent aid in understanding what needs to be done (and why they need to be done) to help others (as well as yourself) when disasters occur. It was interesting, enlightening and well delivered.

By Anna V

Jul 30, 2019

The practice course contains a clear stress relief algorithm. The course is available for study, you do not need in-depth knowledge of psychology to start learning. PFA takes a little time to study - about 10 hours.

By Beruki P

Mar 7, 2018

This course is very helpful and easy to understand. It's taught in an organized way. And i like the scenario stimulations. After learning this course you can help both yourself and others. Very useful in real life.

By Khrystyne M

Dec 7, 2020

Very good course and information that was given by the instructor was very excited about the opportunity to be able to attend online courses doing this Pandemic 🙌. I will share this others. Greatly appreciated!!

By SIM E V

May 26, 2020

I enjoy this course a lot because there are video examples of how a person can demonstrate the skills and Dr George teach really well. I just hope we can see the correct answer to the questions we answered wrongly.

By Zeynep S

Nov 25, 2020

Although it was a little bit hard to understand at the beginning I enjoyed this course and finally finished it successfully. I am very proud of myself to finish this class and very happy that I took it. Thank you.

By Manan S

May 11, 2020

I really think I learned something and enjoyed learning it from the professor. I would like to learn more content like this. It was amazing. I feel good and confident in what i learnt, for the first time atleast.

By Hirenkumar V C

May 1, 2020

This course really helpful to understand how to handle situation. Best part of course to present negative and positive manners by examples. I made significant progress towards my learning goals during this course.

By Maria S

Oct 23, 2016

I really enjoyed taking this course. I appreciated that the material was not huge, but specific, articulate and to the point. It really offers to the learner a sound basis on how to offer psychological first aid.

By Henzel E

Jul 20, 2020

It has been an enriching first online course for me and thanks to Johns Hopkins and Dr Everly for mounting this very helpful module. I sure will use this in my future works as a psychologist. Thank you very much.