Coping With Stress After A Traumatic Event: Tip Sheet - Centers For Disease Control: Feeling stressed before or after a traumatic event is normal. But, this stress becomes a problem when we are unable to cope well with it and when the stress gets in the way of taking care of ourselves and family, going to school, or doing our jobs. Coping well with stress begins with recognizing how we are reacting and then by taking steps to manage our reactions in a healthy way.

The Road To Resilience - American Psychological Association: This brochure is intended to help readers with taking their own road to resilience. The information within describes resilience and some factors that affect how people deal with hardship. Much of the brochure focuses on developing and using a personal strategy for enhancing resilience.

Building Resilience - Headington Institute: Resilience is the ability to bounce back or return to normal functioning after adversity. Many humanitarians adapt to challenge in the short term by drawing on natural strengths. However, given the nature and intensity of humanitarian work, most relief and development professionals will need to intentionally build their resilience in order to offset the effects of long term stress exposure on the brain and body.

Professional Quality of Life  Manual - Beth Hudnall Stamm: Professional quality of life is the quality one feels in relation to their work as a helper. Both the positive and negative aspects of doing your work influence your professional quality of life. People who work helping others may respond to individual, community, national, and even international crises. They may be health care professionals, social service workers, teachers, attorneys, police officers, firefighters, clergy, transportation staff, disaster responders, and others. Understanding the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.

Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR)  Online Courses – The National Child Traumatic Stree Network: Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) are promising practices for disaster behavioral health response and recovery. Both PFA and SPR were developed by the National Center for PTSD and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as well as other individuals involved in coordinating and participating in disaster response and recovery.

PFA and SPR intervention strategies are intended for use with children, adolescents, parents and caretakers, families, and adults who are survivors or witnesses exposed to disaster or terrorism. PFA and SPR can also be provided to first responders and other disaster relief workers. Both courses are five hours in length and available in English and Spanish.

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others - Laura vanDernoot Lipsky: This book is written for anyone who is doing work with an intention to make the world more sustainable and hopeful—all in all, a better place—and who, through this work, is exposed to the hardship, pain, crisis, trauma, or suffering of other living beings or the planet itself. It is for those who notice that they are not the same people they once were, or are being told by their families, friends, colleagues, or pets that something is different about them. It is a navigational tool for remembering that we have options at every step of our lives. We choose our own path. We can make a difference without suffering; we can do meaningful work in a way that works for us and for those we serve.