For a course project on the psychology of disaster, students must create an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation examining how one of several areas (e.g., effects on first responders, environmental vulnerabilities, disasters in schools) influenced a recent disaster event and response efforts. The presentation must describe the disaster, illustrate how the selected area was involved, discuss its influence on response and any barriers to behavioral health interventions, and propose a plan to more effectively address challenges related to the selected area using disaster behavioral health principles. Academic sources must be cited to support definitions, recommendations, and establish the plan's evidence basis.

1. Powerpoint (psychology of disaster)
Many topics of interest and importance are covered during the course; Week 8, especially,
provides an opportunity to explore several, often overlooked topics that are critical to our
understanding in the discussion of the psychology of disaster. For your course project, you
are tasked with selecting one of the following areas, presented during week seven of the
course, and examining a disaster event, using the selected area as the foundation of your
work. The areas from which you may select include:· Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of
disasters on first responders/BH providers)· Environmental Vulnerabilities and
Considerations· Critical Infrastructure Failures· Disaster in School Environments · In a 8 to
12 slide PowerPoint presentation, identify a recent disaster event (within the most recent
10 years), providing a description of the major events of the disaster leading up to, during,
and after the event, to the extent possible. o Incorporating the selected area above, discuss,
with detail and support, how the area is illustrated in the disaster event.· Explore how the
selected element influenced disaster response efforts. o Provide details of the ways in which
these influences were observed. o Discuss any barriers presented by the selected element in
providing effectual behavioral health interventions. · Prepare a plan describing how the
challenges experienced might be more effectively navigated using the principles of disaster
behavioral health learned throughout the course. o Share the steps and resources you
would deploy to overcome or avoid the challenges faced in the selected element. In
developing your work, be sure to rely upon academic, scholarly sources to support the
definitions and recommendations provided. Ensure the plan presented is based upon
evidenced based practices established in the field as effective in addressing psychological
needs in disaster settings. Work should be submitted in a PowerPoint file or other
compatible file, and be 8 to 12 slides in length, excluding the required title slide and
separate reference slide. Detailed speaker notes should accompany slides containing mostly
bullet point data to include the details expected in the instructions above. Scholarly sources
should be cited both in-text and on the reference page of the submission. A minimum of
three academic, scholarly sources are required to be cited in the work.