- Understanding the Psychological Dimensions of Emergencies

Guest Speaker - Moose Mutlow, Family Liaison Officer trainer, Swiftwater Rescue practitioner and author

Moose has nearly 4 decades of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe. He has course directed 58-day Outward Bound instructor trainings in Appalachia, been a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari Desert, managed a beach concession on the Mediterranean, slogged through Australian rain forests with middle school students, has more than 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting, and recently returned from teaching a canoe program for Veterans on the Gulf of Mexico.

Since 2002 Moose has been a member and senior trainer of Yosemite Search and Rescue, working as a technician and within Incident Command, at one of the busiest SAR operations in the world.

Moose currently works for NatureBridge in Yosemite National Park as the Senior Projects Director for planning, design and construction of the National Environmental Science Center.

Moose has been the Lead Trainer for Family Liaison Officers for the National Park Service teaching trainings with staff from Yosemite, Arches, Smokey Mountains, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Theodore Roosevelt, Joshua Tree, Sequoia Kings, Point Reyes, Lassen, Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.

04:10: In terms of defining that emergency because it can be relative from one person´s emergency to another person´s emergency. What would you define as a full search and rescue operation emergency?

05:08: And managing those emergency situations would you be fair to say that you try to direct and steer the situation as best you can without it escalating into a broader inherent drama and more critical situation

06:25: What do you think families need when they face a crisis in the resulting trauma?

08:02: You talked a lot about distress continuum in your work. Can you elaborate a little bit further in terms of the context of that in the psychological first aid?