Developmental Psychology
Running Head: EMERGENCY PREPARDENESS 1
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 6
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Lana Eliot
PSY 605 Developmental Psychology
Professor Cabero
August 6, 2017
I would like to take a moment to thank everyone for joining me today. The state we live in is very beautiful, from the shorelines of the coast to the rural areas of eastern Washington. There are many ways that there could be a natural disaster in our beautiful and diverse State of Washington. We could easily have another devastating volcanic eruption, an earthquake, a Radioactive Sludge Leaking at Hanford or even a mudslide. With the land diversity, we have here in the state, almost anything could lead to a natural disaster. The name of the organization that I represent is called: Did You Prepare and we are located in the Tri-Cities area, Benton and Franklin Counties. I personally would like to have everyone who lives within the Tri-Cities to take a day to be made aware and prepare for a natural disaster. I would like to implement a weekly training day for all new hired people within the Health Care Profession in our community to be encouraged to attend the informational preparedness group before starting their new job. This would reach a large, more diverse group of people in our area, as it is heavily occupied with health care facilities and hospitals per capita. The developmental stage of the target population would be the establishment. By informing all new hired persons, the age range could be anywhere from mid-20’s through 55 or even 60 years of age. Having a wide range of persons attending the informative and preparedness learning will enable us to get the message of emergency readiness to more groups of people. The Practice Applying Ethical Principles to the Preparedness Planning Process
“Emergency preparedness planning is, or should be, an iterative process. When preparedness planning groups habituate themselves to the discipline of thorough ethical analysis, they become increasingly skilled at conducting vigorous moral deliberations. Life is full of emergencies, and public institutions responsible for emergency preparedness and response can use any emergency that occurs anywhere to increase their knowledge base for their ongoing planning efforts. An agency that is responsible for emergency response, for example, can take the opportunity of any emergency that has recently occurred to test its own ethical analysis skills. An agency can use a recent emergency as an exercise to see if its own preparedness planning process would have yielded similar or different ethical judgments about response strategies that could have been used. Such post hoc activities allow preparedness planning groups to practice the ethical analysis skills necessary to apply ethical principles and theories to the planning process meaningfully” (Roberts, M., n.d).
I believe in being prepared for the unexpected, or at least aware of what might happen in our community and neighboring counties. With living so close to Hanford, our community has a high chance of a natural disaster. All people, young or old, need to know what to do if a natural disaster occurs. Washington State has active mountains which could explode again. Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980 and caused a natural disaster to those in the state. Mt. Rainier is also an active volcano here in Washington State. Mt. Rainier is also not too far away. Mount Rainier experiences about 20 small earthquakes a year, making it the second most seismically active volcano in the northern Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens. (National Park Service). The more information that people receive about being prepared for a natural disaster, the better off we will be, whatever kind of disaster it may be. The expected outcome that is wanting to be achieved is having most members of the community attend informational sessions and be prepared for what might or might not come with regards to a natural disaster. “With the ever-increasing severity of natural disasters worldwide, it is even more crucial to create a recovery plan before disaster strikes, according to a report by http://bclc.uschamber.com. This fact is highlighted by the losses during 2011, the worst year financially for economic losses tied to natural disasters, a whopping $380 billion, more than twice as much as in 2010 and 2009 combined” (Disaster Resource Guide). Awareness, readiness, and practiced execution is very important to save as many people from a horrible disaster and save lives. Being prepared before a disaster happens can assure a quicker and easier recovery. Don’t wait until a disaster happens to start thinking about what to do next.
I would like to inform the persons’ in attendance for this “Did You Prepare? help us, help our community! Informational meeting the Cognitive Developmental Theory. Cognitive Development theory is very important to the learning theory and academic advising. Cognitive development is based on the work of Piaget, these theories ‘examine how people think, reason, and make meaning out of their experiences’ (Evans, 2003, p. 186). Cognitive development is also viewed as sequential and ‘development occurs when [an individual’s] cognitive structure is changed, thus enabling new ways of incorporating experience’ (Creamer, 2000, p. 23). Because cognitive structures vary from one individual to another, individuals may have very different views of a single event (Creamer and Creamer, 1994). Cognitive development theories are also very relevant to the field of academic advising. Based on the work of Piaget, these theories ‘examine how people think, reason, and make meaning out of their experiences’ (Evans, 2003, p. 186). Cognitive development is also viewed as sequential and ‘development occurs when [an individual’s] cognitive structure is changed, thus enabling new ways of incorporating experience’ (Creamer, 2000, p. 23). Because cognitive structures vary from one individual to another, individuals may have very different views of a single event (Creamer and Creamer, 1994). There is many personal testimonies’ about how being prepared has been very beneficial in the place of a natural disaster. However, the lack of people who attend preparedness classes is large. By teaming up with the physicians and hospitals, inviting all new hired persons to attend the Did You Know? classes will be one way to reach new people at all times. This would increase the awareness, knowledge and preparedness within our community. Our group, Did You Know? will also educate other people within the community and surrounding areas as others become aware of the need for this great group.
References:
Retrieved from https://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/nature/volcanoes.htm
Creamer, D.G., & Creamer, E.G. (1994). Practicing developmental advising: Theoretical contexts and functional applications. NACADA Journal, 14 (2), 17-24.
Creamer, D.G. (2000). Use of theory in academic advising. In Gordon, V.N. and Habley, W.R. Academic Advising: A comprehensive handbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Disaster Resource Guide. Retrieved from http://www.disaster-resource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1708
Evans, N.J. (2003). Psychosocial, cognitive, and typological perspectives on student development. In Komives, S.R. and Woodard, D.B., Jr. Student services: A handbook for the profession (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Roberts, M., (n.d). U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Public Health Emergency Preparedness. Chapter 2. Ethical Considerations in Community Disaster Planning. Retrieved from https://archive.ahrq.gov/research/mce/mce2.htm.
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