System of urgent psychological aid to subjects of educational settings in the USA (review of the studies for the last decade)

The article analyzes the strategies of urgent psychological aid in the USA in a chronological order: preparation for critical situations in educational settlements (school crisis plans), immediate reaction to a crisis (the first psychological aid), work with psychological trauma.

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