Disasters

Disasters in Australia can include bushfires, flooding, earthquakes and drought.

Follow the links below to find information about disasters and critical incidents.

Reviewed October 2007

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Disaster Management
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Title:	Trauma and teenagers - tips for parents
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Young people in your family need both your support and your adult perspective. The way you help them to handle distressing and frightening events will influence their behaviour in future crises.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Trauma and families - tips
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	In families affected by distressing or frightening experiences, each person reacts in their own way. Understanding each other and some of the common reactions to look out for can help your family avoid communication breakdown and other problems. Many things will help your family recover. If you are concerned about family members, please seek professional help.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Trauma - after effects
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Powerful physical and emotional reactions are a normal response to distress and trauma. Distress reactions can occur hours, days, weeks or even months after such events.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Trauma and families
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	If your family is affected by a distressing or frightening experience, it is important to understand each other's experience of the event and reactions. This will help to avoid communication breakdowns and other problems. There are many strategies to reduce complications and support family recovery.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Trauma and teenagers - common reactions
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Your teenager will handle the experience of distressing or frightening events differently to young children or adults. In order to help them, parents need to understand the ways in which a teenager manages distress and trauma.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Trauma - how our body reacts
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	An event that endangers life or property can provoke distress reactions in the people involved. Brain chemicals put the mind on high alert and prime the nervous system, circulation and muscles to respond to the threat. This instinctive response helps us to deal with trauma and crisis, but leaves after effects.
Date:	Jul 2008

Title:	Disaster assistance programs
Publisher:	Medicare Australia
Description:	This page provides information about the assistance programs Medicare Australia administers to assist victims and survivors of bombings or natural disasters.
Date:	May 2008

Title:	Trauma and children
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	The way children respond to a distressing or frightening experience depends on a wide range of factors including the nature of their experience, previous experiences, their age and stage of development, and the impact of the experience on their parents or carers.
Date:	Feb 2008

Title:	Final report of the NSW Drought Mental Health Assistance Package
Publisher:	NSW Department of Health
Description:	The Drought Mental Health Assistance Package announced in October 2006, provided $1m to build capacity in rural communities affected by drought.

Title:	Tragedy - coping afterwards
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	It can sometimes seem that every time you turn around there has been another tragedy - tragedies overseas, tragedies in your country, tragedies in your neighbourhood and even tragedies in your family.
Date:	Jan 2008

Title:	Dealing with a tragedy
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	When we hear about tragedies in which people are hurt or killed, we can experience many strong emotions, which can seem overwhelming.
Date:	Nov 2007

Title:	Workplace health - coping with a critical incident
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	A critical incident is any event or series of events that is sudden, overwhelming, threatening or protracted. This may be an assault, threats, severe injury, death, fire or a bomb threat. Critical Incident Stress Management aims to help workers deal with the normal emotional reactions that may result from involvement in or exposure to critical incidents in the workplace.
Date:	Sep 2007

Title:	Media release. Helping people affected by drought-related trauma
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The Australian Government is providing $10.1 million to help people living in drought-affected communities to deal with drought-related psychological trauma.
Date:	Sep 2007

Title:	Health advice for members of Australian medical assistance teams going to the Asia-Pacific area
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	This document provides health advice about personal health protection to persons planning to travel to disaster-affected areas in the Asia-Pacific area as a member of an Australian government health team.
Date:	Feb 2007

Title:	Health advice for members of Australian medical assistance teams returning from the Asia-Pacific area
Publisher:	Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:	The purpose of this document is to provide health advice to persons who are returning from disaster-affected areas in the Asia-Pacific area as a member of an Australian government health team.
Date:	Feb 2007

Title:	Trauma and children - tips for parents
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	There is a variety of things you can do to help your child recover from distressing or frightening experiences. Time and support can help a child to cope with trauma. If you are concerned about your child, or feel that you aren't coping yourself, seek professional advice.
Date:	Nov 2006

Title:	Drought Information Card
Publisher:	beyondblue
Description:	Drought information card about tackling stress and depression in tough times. Includes phone numbers of help lines.

Title:	Coping with the cyclone
Publisher:	inspire foundation
Description:	The recent cyclone in Queensland, Cyclone Larry, or the media coverage of its devastation, might have left you feeling shocked, angry, sad, or anxious. For more information on ways to cope and to help, check out this fact sheet.

Title:	Tsunami
Publisher:	Inspire Foundation
Description:	A young person shares her story of how the tsunami affected her and her story.
Date:	Jan 2005

Title:	Terrorism - and its effects on mental health
Publisher:	Mental Health Association NSW
Description:	This fact sheet is designed to assist people living with the fear of a terrorist attack or other human-made disaster. It draws heavily on the NSW Health and NSW Institute of Psychiatry publication Disaster Mental Health Response Handbook, July 2000.
Date:	Jul 2003

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