Describe a best practice for a mental health disorder that was new to you after navigating the SAMHSA website. Provide a brief description of the intervention and target population. General Discussion Post
Explore the SAMHSA website.
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Please reply to these 2 students for me. I need a response in 48 hours Student 1: AMAN DAAfter exploring the SAMHSA website, I learned about the Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery assistance program. This program provides neighborhoods or communities and first responders with behavior health resources that can assist them with preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Disasters such as tornados, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, terrorist attacks, mass shootings, and chemical spills or explosions can result in trauma for the citizens of the communities as well as the responders. General Discussion Post
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Recovery of the trauma is crucial for behavioral health of these individuals. Stress from these experiences is normal. However, when a person’s mental wellness does not fully recover from the stress, behavioral health therapy may be necessary for developing coping skills. Finding and accessing help quickly after the trauma is important for maximizing positive outcomes. The Disaster Technical Assistance Center works closely with SAMHSA to create preparedness strategies for providing behavioral health response treatments for those affected by disasters. SAMHSA’s mobile app provides information on trauma, depression, and other serious mental or emotional disturbances symptoms and center locations for those who may have been affected. There is also a helpline that can provide assistance and information.Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. (2020). Retrieved 22 October 2020, from https://www.samhsa.gov/disaster-preparednessStudent 2: MARGIESAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) improves treatment and services for children, adolescents, and families who have experienced traumatic events. When children experience traumatic events, we tend to forget that they may not know how to handle these events emotionally. Some children lash out and some disconnect so that they don’t have to deal with that experience. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. In children, PTSD can derive from experiencing natural or human-made disasters such as floods, kidnappings, rape, or murder of parent or guardian, car accident, sexual or physical abuse. Nearly 80% of children that suffer from maltreatment receive the abuse from their parents.Furthermore, children exposed to any form of maltreatment have higher prevalence rates of PTSD than adults with similar exposure events. (Pate 2020) NCTSI was developed by physicians and authorized by Congress to increase resources for children in lower-income communities.
Many children in the lower-income communities must endure their war-zone communities. This initiative develops and implements evidence-based interventions to decrease the adverse side effects of PTSD. This program will go into those communities and educate and train the existing staff on better serving these children that need these services. We have seen the after school special about the school bully terrorizing everyone at school, and at the end of the movie you find out the bully is being bullied at home by their parent. NCTSI can make treatment available for the child and the parent to rebuild a very tense relationship through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). They could end the cycle of generational abuse and give that child a new perspective on how to express themselves in a positive manner. National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. (n.d.). SAMHSA. Retrieved October 24, 2020, fromhttps://www.samhsa.gov/child-trauma/about-nctsiPate, K. (2020). A Comprehensive Review of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A Comprehensive Review of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Children. Florida St. Petersburg University of South Florida St. Petersburg General Discussion Post