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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, people are experiencing a broad range of

emotions, from celebratory to disappointment, to anxiety and fear. In this episode, I talk with

Dr. George Everley, an expert in psychological crises about psychological first aid and how it can

help people move through difficult emotions to process

disruptive events. Just a note that if you or someone you know is struggling and could use some

support, you can call 988 for immediate emotional support. Let's listen. Dr. George Everly, we're

very happy to have you back on the podcast. Just to set the scene

a little bit, it is after election day. People are experiencing a really broad range of emotions

from celebratory to disappointment to maybe even anxiety and fear. And you have experience

working with people on how to process some of these big emotions.

So we're going to talk to you today about psychological first aid. So can you first walk us through

what is psychological first aid? How do you do it? Who does it? Who's this for? Those

kinds of things. So psychological first aid is, think of it as a psychological band aid of sorts.

So we have physical band-aids, why shouldn't we have psychological band-aids?

They're not designed to be diagnostic tools or treatments at all.

But something to take the sting out of an injury, something to begin facilitate the healing process to an injury.

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