Two programs are offered. Dr. Carol North and Dr. Barry Hong (who presented at UTHSCSA in August, 2005) return to present MC-Flash Practical Front-Line Assistance for Support and Healing (P-FLASH II©),Version II, for Medical Centers. It is administered to groups of medical center professionals by a team of specially trained facilitators, the program’s format provides didactic and interactive formats using a lively animated slide presentation and case vignettes, question-and-answer sessions, and discussion breakouts. Uniquely data-based, MC-FLASH translates current and evolving disaster mental health research into practical recommendations to guide medical center personnel from the intense early post-disaster period through long-term recovery. Following logical steps through systematic decision trees, MC-FLASH delivers the necessary skills for differentiating "normal" distress from abnormal reactions and provides tools for appropriate management of these problems in different disaster time phases in the medical center setting. The second day is a train-the-trainer workshop. The intensive train-the-trainer program provides hands-on experience and guidance to prepare trainees to present the materials effectively and authoritatively.

The conference offers presentations by leaders in disaster mental health who will discuss the mental health consequences of recent disasters from Oklahoma City to Katrina. Discussion and audience participation will be encouraged.

CE credit will be offered (including an ethics presentation).

Please register for each event you wish to attend (to attend both the workshop and conference, you must register for each). If you wish CE credits, register for each activity plus the CE. For those unable to attend, a videotape of the conference will be available later.

Registration:
Continuing Medical Education
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Online registration

Presented at
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Map (parking)
Program auditorium Dental 1.284T

Sponsors:

Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council for Trauma (STRAC)

UTHSCSA Center for Public Health Preparedness and Biomedical Research (CPHPBR)

Texas Department of State Health Services

City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health Department

UTHSCSA School of Allied Health Sciences

St. Mary's University

Workshop Objectives:
After completion of MC-Flash (P-FLASH II© for Medical Centers) training, participants should be able to:

Provide front-line strategies and plans for behavioral, psychiatric, and collective mental health responses appropriate to different phases of disaster

Differentiate normative and pathological responses and utilize this distinction in directing appropriate interventions

Integrate disaster mental health skills with other emergency and medical interventions as essential members of the medical disaster response team

Conference Objectives:

develop knowledge of psychological first aid

identify and differentiate normative from pathological responses

identify principles of community preparedness

review lessons learned (what worked, what did not, what can be improved)

develop future directions in disaster preparedness.

Core Agenda

Workshop
Monday April 3 2006
0730 Registration
(all day: MC-flash)(Carol North and Barry Hong)
0800 Welcome and administrivia
0810 Psychological First Aid
1000 break
1010 Psychological First Aid continued
1200 lunch
1300 Psychological First Aid continued
1400 break
1600 Speakers panel/Overall Discussion: David Mangelsdorff

Workshop
Tuesday April 4 2006
0730 Registration
(all day: MC-flash: train-the-trainers)(Carol North and Barry Hong)
0800 Welcome and administrivia
0810 Psychological First Aid
1000 break
1010 Psychological First Aid continued
1200 lunch
1300 Psychological First Aid continued
1400 break
1600 Speakers panel/Overall Discussion: David Mangelsdorff

Conference
Wednesday April 5 2006
0730 Registration
0750 Welcome and administrivia
0800 Welcome: Harold Timboe
0810 San Antonio Mental Health Disaster Consortium: LaDona Farinacci & Brian Masterson
0900 Disaster Research Center Univ. Delaware: Benigno Aguirre
1000 break
1010 Practical Front Line Assistance & Support for Healing (P-Flash): Carol North
1100 Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions for Victims/Survivors of Mass Violence: E. Cameron Ritchie
1200 lunch
1300 Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness: George Everly
1400 Disaster Operations: Legal and Ethical Issues Associated with Taking of Property, Interrogation, Quarantine, and Forced Inoculations: Jeffrey Addicott
1500 Speakers panel/Overall Discussion: David Mangelsdorff

Thursday April 6 2006
0730 Registration
0750 Administrivia
0800 Disaster Mental Health Institute: Gerard A. Jacobs
0900 National Center on the Psychology of Terrorism: Zeno Franco and Larry E. Beutler
1000 break
1010 Clinical interventions post 9/11: from disaster to resilience: Laura Barbanel
1100 Univ. Health System: Robert L. Jimenez
1200 Speakers panel/Final Discussion & wrap-up/ course critiques: David Mangelsdorff

References:

Disaster Research Center University of Delaware: (Benigno E. Aguirre)

P-Flash and M-Flash: (Carol North) (Barry Hong)

Disaster Mental Health Institute: (Gerard A. Jacobs)

American Psychological Association Resiliency: (Laura Barbanel)

Walter Reed Army Medical Center: (Elspeth Cameron Ritchie)

National Center on the Psychology of Terrorism: (Larry E. Beutler) (Zeno Franco)

Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness: (George S. Everly, Jr.)

University Health System: (Robert L. Jimenez)

St. Mary’s University School of Law Center for Terrorism Law: (Jeffrey Addicott)

U. Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Center for Public Health Preparedness and Biomedical Research: (Charles R. Bauer)

St. Mary’s University International Relations Dept.: (Larry Hufford)

Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security: (Greg White)

Center for Public Health Preparedness: (Harold Timboe)

Contact Information:
Dr. A. David Mangelsdorff, San Antonio, TX

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