Psychological First Aid

A lot of people go through traumatic and stress-inducing events that affect their overall physical and psychological health. As a result, they may suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, inability to breathe, irrational thinking episodes, and chronic stress.

The Canadian Red Cross aims to help people take care of themselves and others. It’s continuously striving to improve first aid and emergency response training to help people cope with different types of stress.

Metro Safety Training offers the Red Cross Psychological First Aid course in British Columbia. Also referred to as PFA, this course is developed to equip people with initial disaster management knowledge. PFA teaches students how to stabilize stressed patients, offer them medical aid, and provide on-site safety resources.

Moreover, a PFA-certified individual is also skilled to offer mental and first aid emergency response to suffering individuals. This course allows the responders to address immediate mental health concerns after a natural calamity and disaster.

What Will This Course Teach You

You can avail PFA training in Lower Mainland, BC, from some of the best instructors at Metro Safety Training. This course will teach you how to identify, respond, and monitor stress, anxiety, depression, and self-harm symptoms.

It enables the candidates to help people facing medical emergencies due to increased stress and psychological presses. You will learn various strategies to manage different kinds of mental illnesses and their first aid solutions for on-site safety.

Our Red Cross PFA program follows the Look, Listen, Link, and Live model to make sure candidates are fully prepared to deliver first aid intervention strategies. It also includes Skills for Psychological Recovery training modules for disaster relief workers and responders.

Psychological First Aid Course Topics

Some of the core modules included in the Psychological First Aid course are:

  • Learning operational techniques to deliver onsite mental health support
  • Stress/Distress management
  • Coping with Loss and Grief
  • Handling Trauma
  • Identifying stress and trauma indicators
  • Identifying vulnerable individuals
  • Effective communication
  • Self-care practices, etc.

Combine PFA with Emergency First Aid CPR and AED Level C

Enhance your PFA knowledge with Metro Safety Training’s Emergency First Aid course in British Columbia. These two courses can fully train you to identify and address people facing medical and mental emergencies.

Metro Safety Training offers efficient Red Cross First Aid and workplace safety certification courses in Coquitlam, Delta, Surrey, Richmond and Vancouver.

Call us at 604-521-4227 to learn more or enrol right away!