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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

RR

Jun 12, 2020

I had a wonderful learning experience. Kudos to Dr. George! Lectures are brief but very substantial, simulation videos are very helpful to how to do it and how not to do the psychological first aid.

SA

Aug 14, 2020

Found the course really informational and useful on both personal and professional levels. The techniques and skills were easily implementable and highly transferable to various real-life situations.

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By Chad E B

May 26, 2020

Provides basic knowledge and skills needed to do psychological first aid. Course is compact. Very easy to understand. The simulation makes it more easily understood.

By INAM U H

May 5, 2020

It was really amazing learning about Psychological First Aid. Thanks to the instructor for sharing his valuable experience with me to make my learning more practical

By Laura R

Sep 21, 2019

I really enjoyed this course. It reminds me a lot of LUVER (Listen, Understand, Validate, Empathize and Repeat) that MOCSA teaches in its group therapy. Thank you :)

By Dicle D

Mar 14, 2023

Amazin course content with amazing video illustration. It was really helpful. Thank you very much for the JH university and the ones who contributed to the course .

By Angeline

Jul 3, 2021

I like that this course is really informative and helpful for those who aren;t professionals in this field, yet contribute to the betterment of global mental health

By Flor M H

Feb 8, 2021

Excelente curso, me ayudo mucho para entender mejor el concepto de una escucha activa. Como el escuchar a una persona es ya sembrar la semilla para algo más grande.

By PRANAV V

Aug 27, 2020

Detailed, simple and extremely efficiently taught. I highly recommend this course. Helps in understanding the basic nature of humans, which i found very insightful.

By Aline A

Jul 23, 2020

It's a real shame the certificate is so expensive, i wish i could have it. But it's ok, i feel the course is really good and can actually help me help someone else.

By Mai A V

May 1, 2020

A very comprehensive course that balances both technical terms and clear examples. I really enjoyed the lessons, especially short videos on how-not-to-do something.

By Foram N

Apr 10, 2025

It was stood fairly excellent in my learning goals. The approach used by facilitator was quite interesting and engaging. Loved my decision to invest in this course

By Jonathan C R

Aug 19, 2022

A very informative and engaging course. I learned some things that I didn't know, and the course reinforced a few things I already knew. All in all, a good course.

By Bernadette C

Jun 20, 2021

Absolutely excellent course that can be applied now more than ever in all aspects of our work and or home life post Covid and the emotional damage this has caused.

By Sanna J

Sep 13, 2020

its an excellent course which really improved my writing skills.good work by the team.all videos and material is really helpful and informative.thanks to the team.

By Ann R F

Aug 24, 2020

Very concise and straight to the point. Dr. Everly was also very inspiring and motivating every time he introduces a new module.

Very relevant and grounded course.

By Diah N

Jul 14, 2020

This course is very useful. The material described is structured and equipped with simulations. So it's not just learning in theory. Thank you for the opportunity!

By Manish T

May 23, 2020

the course certainly took my understanding in direction of practicing sympathy with empathy and be able to help someone struggling with stress due to some incident

By Marga S J

May 12, 2020

I learned a lot of new ideas and terms during the course that I found useful. The professor was very engaging and the course material made learning very enjoyable.

By Lúcia P

Apr 10, 2020

Excellent course.. helps organize ideais and steps to be followed during that kind of work. Professor George is super, he explanes in a very easy way to comprehend

By Madina S

Sep 23, 2019

Course that helps in gaining professional knowledge in a very simplistic way which is both - productive and short. So it won't take a while to try out your skills.

By Karen M F M

Apr 16, 2019

It is an excellent course that has taught me important tools to offer help to people in cases of emergency and to help them mitigate the acute stress they may feel

By Fernando B

May 14, 2018

Usually all the efforts are focused on conventional first aid, but is very rare to be told about how to deal with human emotions when disastes strikes.

Great course

By Tom R

Apr 24, 2018

Excellent and thorough overview of practical skills for real life. Would highly recommend for anyone in healthcare or any field who wants to be useful in a crisis.

By Sarah H

Nov 29, 2017

Very informative and useful for anyone who commonly deals with people in crisis or would like an introduction into what that would look like as a volunteer or care

By Md R

Nov 7, 2017

This is great course for any one who is interested in working with psychological healing. Took this course out of curiosity and learned some new approaches. Thanks

By Damla E

Apr 16, 2021

Thank you Coursera, Johns Hopkins University and Dr. George Everly for this Psychological First Aid course. It was so beneficial and so much fun at the same time.