Welcome to Lesson 4-3: Disaster Psychology.

In this lesson, you'll learn about the actions that CERT members can take to deal with the psychological stresses that are associated with disaster response.

After completing this lesson you should be able to:

• State why dealing with disaster-related stress is important
• Identify steps you can take to relieve your own stressors, both individually and as part of a team
• Identify ways to help survivors with disaster trauma

It should take you about 40 minutes to complete this lesson.