Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers)

Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers)
Hurricane Katrina OR Hurricaine Sandy OR 9/11 OR any other major disaster the writer wants to choose
Many topics of interest and importance are covered during the course; Week 7, 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 writing about Secondary Traumatic Stress (Effects of disasters on first responders/BH providers), and examining a disaster event, using the selected area as the foundation of your work.
• provide 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.
•  Ensure the plan presented is based upon evidenced based practices established in the field as effective in addressing psychological needs in disaster settings.
In developing your work, be sure to rely upon academic, scholarly sources to support the definitions and recommendations provided. Scholarly sources should be cited both in-text (speakers notes) and on the reference page of the submission. A minimum of eight academic, scholarly sources are required to be cited in the work, 5 of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles.  Course materials may not be used to meet the scholarly source requirement.
Student identifies an appropriate disaster event, incorporating the selected special consideration with exceptional detail and support, demonstrating how the area of concern is illustrated in the disaster event.
Student examines the ways in which the unique element under examination effects disaster response, providing significant, meaningful details of the influences seen, and barriers to behavioral health care, demonstrating an of these issues.
The student prepares a detailed disaster response plan outlining the way in which challenges will be overcome, grounded in principles of disaster behavioral health.
8 or more scholarly sources are used in the submission & at least 5 are peer-reviewed journal articles.
Work is presented in a logical and coherent manner. Writing is clear, articulate and almost completely free of grammar, syntax, spelling, and contextual errors
APA formatting is complete & correct, including but not limited to the in-text citations and reference list.