Information on Ways of Coping

• Clarify what the stress situation is.
• Encourage survivors to apply effective stress coping skills by identifying past coping experiences.
• Builds realistic plans from the less psychologically burdened and encourages them to execute.
• Provides stress response after disaster (sleep disorder, anxiety, anger, guilt) and stress management information.
• Educate vulnerable survivors about how to respond to disasters and how to cope.