Erasmus+ Programme – Strategic Partnership

Project Title: “Psychological Resilinece for Emergency Responders”

No.  project:  2020-1-RO01-KA202-079773

PROJECT SUMMARY

Recent scientific research has shown that increasing psychological resilience plays an essential role, in personnel involved in emergencies, doctors, assistants, paramedics, firefighters, because it can moderate and prevent serious psychological responses. Poor psychological resilience affects performance, quality of work, life and ultimately can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or even more severe psychological disorders.

This is particularly relevant for the personnel involved in emergencies, doctors, assistants, paramedics, firefighters, who are constantly facing emergency situations both medical and disaster response.

One of the most effective adaptation strategies is psychological resilience, which refers to the ability to overcome difficult moments in life.

Psychological resilience is a training skill. It involves a series of patterns of thinking and behavior that can be learned and trained.

General objective – Increased psychological resilience to personnel involved in emergencies, doctors, assistants, paramedics, firefighters.

Specific objectives

– improving resilience by raising awareness of the emotional consequences of the trauma experienced.

– acquiring the behaviors and skills that can increase resilience

– knowing the stress signals resulting from emergency situations by the personnel involved in emergency situations doctors, assistants, paramedics, firefighters

– the knowledge and use of increasing psychological resilience as a technique for managing the effects of individual and group critical situations

The direct target group will be made up of the personnel involved in emergencies, doctors, assistants, paramedics, volunteers, firefighters, who come first in contact with the victims or the deceased persons.

The indirect target group consists of emergency personnel involved in secondary lines of action, policemen, psychologists, social workers, their families, etc.

During the project, different results will be obtained.

IO1 The first intellectual result is – The test – questionnaire for the evaluation of the psychological Resilience of the personnel involved in emergency situations.

– The test for the assessment of psychological resilience is an instrument designed to assess the level of psychological resilience of the personnel involved in emergency situations, doctors, assistants, volunteers, paramedics, firefighters.

IO3 – Course for increasing the psychological resilience of the personnel involved in emergencies, doctors, assistants, volunteers, paramedics, firefighters

The course support is an educational material for partner organizations and all trainers who want to educate their target groups (doctors, assistants, paramedics, firefighters involved in emergencies) in increasing the level of psychological resilience and other indirect beneficiaries interested in working tools. for increasing psychological resilience.

IO4 – Digital Video Course

The fourth output of the project will be a video training compiled from several individual episodes that will provide visual guidance for increasing psychological resilience. This output will be very useful for those who are not particularly computer literate for whom the learning process will be made easier by practical examples.

Intangible results

– improving resilience by raising awareness of the emotional consequences of the trauma experienced.

– Acquiring behaviors and skills that can increase resilience

– Increase the capacity to manage very strong feelings and impulses

– Knowing the stress signals resulting from emergency situations by the personnel involved in emergency situations doctors, assistants, paramedics, firefighters

– Knowledge and use of increasing psychological resilience as a technique for managing the effects of individual and group critical situations

Most importantly, there is an interest and focus at European and global level to optimize the adaptation techniques in the emergency system and we have chosen, together with our partners, to build completely new psychological resilience assessment tools for medical staff, assistants, paramedics, firefighters involved in emergencies and to present useful techniques precisely for this purpose, in the partner countries in the project.