We've had different sets of experts get together and discuss the empirical evidence to support the notion that good things will happen if you do them. That's what I'm going to call psychological first aid, and it has certain underpinnings—safety, calming, connection, efficacy and hope.
• Safety is about removing people from a threat.
• Calming happens when you want to lower the state of arousal so people can function, concentrate and take concrete steps towards what they need to do to protect themselves.
• Connection: People's basic need to connect with others and not be isolated needs to be attended to.
• Efficacy occurs when someone is capable of taking action on their own. When they do so as a member of a group, that's collective efficacy.
• Hope: The idea that the world is predicable and we will get through it, that's hope.
We are the people from different countries, societies and communities. We have different mind, cultures and abilities. We have the different capacities for managing panic in a pandemic but we have also some same things which can help us for managing panic in a pandemic event.
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