A Video Series
In this series of five videos, Sarah J. Powell, director of emergency management at Temple University, shares insights and experiences on the psychosocial impacts of managing your teams and yourself through critical incidents.
The Neuroscience of Stress
Learn about how stress impacts the human brain during a crisis so that you can help your team better navigate times of uncertainty.
Approximately 20 minutes
Performance in Times of Crisis
Understand the relationship between stress and performance and discover things you can do today to help your teams optimize their potential.
Approximately 15 minutes
Common Pitfalls that Plague Teams During a Crisis
Not understanding the human brain under stress can lead to common pitfalls that will hamper performance, lower outcomes, and allow for errors. Learn to implement operational stress controls that will foster a resilient, success-oriented mindset and enable teams to perform at their best.
Approximately 23 minutes
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The Psychosocial Impacts of Disaster
Learn about how different types of disasters affect us in different ways - and how the challenges presented by a global pandemic are especially difficult. The better we understand the impacts, the better we can help one another on the road to resilience.
Approximately 23 minutes
Psychological Reactions to COVID-19 and What We Can Do About It
Understand the common reactions to infectious disease outbreaks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and learn about ways to cope, mitigate against harmful outcomes, and help one another on our collective road to resilience.
Approximately 27 minutes
