Instruction Category: Domain

Continue the target team activity that will deal with

1) ED, to provide orientation support, basic needs, connect with significant others;

2) work on the social media;

3) coordinate and monitor NGO activity.

Strategies to assure physical safety including health, according to the needs (Medical care and nutrition), reduce additional stressors

Sleep hygiene

Goals are:

(A) to reduce anxiety associated with disaster;

(B) related uncertainty by providing information;

(C) adhere to fact-based reporting;

(D) provide warnings before showing graphic material or decrease graphic content exposure (i.e. images of dead bodies, both close-up and distant);

(E) provide information about accessible health care resources for people who feel they may need help during and following disaster events;

(F) to educate those who may be at risk and facilitate help-seeking;

(G) indicate the date of the material being shown to differentiate between current events versus past events (i.e. time stamps in the broadcasted information) (Mash, Fullerton, Ursano, 2020).

Provide safety, adress physical needs, orientation, information, maintain communication.

Assess relevant risk factors of exposed population (e.g. sleep, sex, age, education, loss, type of trauma, previous exposure to trauma, any pre-existing comorbidity, extreeme response, dissociation).

Continue official spokesperson activity, that will give update on regular basis in clssical channels as well as social media.

Any communication with victims should be made in a simple and accessible language, whether orally, in writing, or in another appropriate form. Information should be adapted to different age group, backgrounds, race differences, minorities, geographical locations, including any disability, etc. (EU Handbook on victims of terrorism).

Monitor and discuss media coverage of event if appropriate. Messages about psychoogical safety of children should be integrated into messages of physical safety. Focus on ways others are helping and keeping others safe as possible

Summarize the lesson accomulated in the first day and adapt the procedure accordingly.