This video is about the history of Navy Medicine’s Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team (SPRINT). SPRINT provides short-term mental health support to a requesting command shortly after a traumatic event with the goal of preventing long-term psychiatric dysfunction and promoting maximum psychological readiness. Examples of scenarios in which a SPRINT response may be beneficial include:
- Natural or man-made disasters that result in loss of life, threatened loss of life, or displacement.
- Mishaps, accidents, or other traumatic events incidents involving loss of life or threatened loss of life.
- Fatalities witnessed by members of the command.
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