Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an intervention designed to ... Recent research has focused on evaluating the effectiveness of PFA, the training of providers, and the experiences of those ...

When a traumatic incident at school, at work, or in the community occurs, people may experience painful and debilitating emotional distress. Psychological first aid provides support to reduce the ...

For people affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles, the needs aren't just physical. They're also emotional. To help, doctors, therapists and first responders there are practicing something called ...

RIDDLE: Training more people in psychological first aid, experts say, can help reduce the effects of the trauma in the first place. Katia Riddle, NPR News, Los Angeles. Transcript provided by NPR ...