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Emergency Fact Sheets

The following fact sheets have been prepared by the Department of Human Services for the purpose of assisting members of the community cope with the impact of prolonged essential service disruption or natural disaster.

People are usually surprised at how much a crisis or trauma affects them. It frequently changes the way they think, their values, habits, feelings and behaviour. In fact, it may influence most aspects of their life.

Usually people do not expect their families to be affected, but a major event or crisis in the life of one person always influences their family. Although it is made up of individuals, a family is a unit. What changes one member changes the others.

A crisis or critical incident can bring benefits to a family in the form of greater understanding, closeness or a new appreciation of each other. Sometimes it can bring difficulties and misunderstanding, especially if family members do not understand why they are having to adapt to each other in new ways.

For more resources and fact sheets please visit the Australian Red Cross website

• Care of Your Child in Hot Weather  128kb
• Children and Crisis  126kb
• After An Emergency - a guide to help you recognise and manage stress symptoms after crisis or emergency situations  137kb
• Family and Crisis  141kb
• Giving Psychological Support to Clients  158kb
• Human Recovery from Emergencies Information for Workers in Emergencies  147kb
• Keeping Cool Safely and Preventing Problems from Hot Weather  121kb
• Managing Stressed Clients During Re-establishment of a Public Utility  106kb
• Stress after emergencies  139kb 
• Coping with stress in emergencies  155kb 
• Teenagers and Crisis  136kb
• The Human Face of Disaster Recovery Information for Human Service Workers in Disasters  149kb
• When Someone You Know Has Had a Traumatic Experience  168kb