North Carolina Disaster Response Network Training
This training was developed by the North Carolina Disaster Response Network and produced by the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Updated 10/22/2008
Module 5 – Resiliency in Disasters
Module 5 introductory photograph by a FEMA photographer
following Hurricane Katrina
This presentation, part of the North Carolina Disaster Response Network Training series, provides an overview of resiliency, the most common response to disasters.
Educational Objectives:
- Distinguish stress, strain and resilience
- Understand the nature of the coping-resiliency relationship
- Identify whether resiliency is predictable for everyone
- Specify the relationship between knowledge and control in resiliency
- Identify external focus common to many resilient people
- Recognize three characteristics of resilient people
Duration: 30 minutes
Author: John Simpson, PhD
Narrator: John Simpson, PhD
Reviewers: Sally Cameron and Cathy Womack for the NC Disaster Response Network
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