Citation

Firestone RM, Everly GS. Int. J. Emerg. Ment. Health 2013; 15(3): 159-164.

Affiliation

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Chevron Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

24558744

Abstract

Crisis communications can play an important role in mitigating, or exacerbating, the psychological and behavioral reactions to critical incidents and disasters. Effective crisis communications can serve to mitigate anxiogenesis and direct rapid and focused rescue, recovery, and rehabilitative operations. Ambiguous and/or deceptive communications can serve to worsen mental health reactions and delay operational response and recovery (Everly, Strouse, & Everly, 2010). It seems, therefore, that inquiry into the content of acute crisis communications would be warranted Said more simply, given limited time, cryptic messaging in social media, and the "sound bite" mentality that seems to govern news dissemination, it is important to identify the most important content to convey in the wake of critical incidents and disasters. This paper reports on a pilot investigation into "best practices" for the construction of acute crisis communications.

Language: en