Emergencies and Mental Health

Taking care of your mental health is always important, especially during an emergency. While we usually only think of the initial impact of a disaster and the triage stage, a crisis may take months or years to resolve and for things to return to normal. This paper, "Managing Mental Health in Cultural Heritage Emergency Response: Occupational Safety and Operational Resilience" by Kennedy and Lockshin provides some background information and tips on how to manage and take care of yourself and others throughout the process: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/117397/Nora%20Lockshin%20-%20Kennedy_Lockshin-Collections19_02-ManagingMentalHealth_rev_accepted_copy.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y