Early mental health intervention after disasters

Alexander, David

doi:10.1192/apt.11.1.12

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“…Certain factors lead to an individual being more vulnerable and increase the risk for developing an emotional disorder (Alexander, 2005). Some of these factors pre-date the disaster, while others are associated with the traumatic event itself.…”

Section: The Rehabilitation Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial support in disaster-affected communities

Rao

2006

International Review of Psychiatry

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The paper outlines psychosocial interventions in providing care and support to disaster-affected communities. Any impact of disaster can be looked at in two ways: firstly by ascertaining the characteristics of the event itself, and secondly, how that event is appraised by those affected. Depending on different phases of the impact of the disaster, individuals will respond in different styles. Psychosocial interventions must be tailored to address the needs of the target population, with special attention paid to vulnerable groups such as children, women and the elderly. These should also be modulated according to the phase of recovery following the event occurrence because each phase will highlight different needs. The four phases of intervention, although determined separately, may show an overlap. In the initial phases, the emphasis is on social intervention that can be delivered by community-level workers. In the later phases, the psychological issues that emerge necessitate the services of trained professionals. Initial social care will need to give way to psychological care, and on occasion both will need to be combined for a considerable period. Since psychosocial care is a long-term, continuous process, disaster management and preparedness programmes must invest in training for capacity building by training community workers and primary care health professionals.

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Section: The Rehabilitation Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial support in disaster-affected communities

Rao

2006

International Review of Psychiatry

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“…In each case, the authors review what is known about the effectiveness of the interventions including evidence on individual versus group therapy. This two-level approach is replicated across the literature and policy advice and is not restricted to war scenarios [42][43][44][45][46].…”

Section: Children and Warmentioning

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The psychosocial consequences for children and young people who are exposed to terrorism, war, conflict and natural disasters

Williams¹

2006

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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“…Immediately after the event of a disaster, almost any disaster victim (including disaster survivors and disaster rescue or relief workers) has intrusion or re-experiencing symptoms as he/she finds himself/herself impotent to stop thinking about what happened. Also the high levels of fear, anxiety, efforts to avoid reminders and arousal symptoms may be seen among the disaster victims in the early stages of large-scale disasters (Alexander, 2005;Young, Ford, Ruzek, Friedman, & Gusman, 1998 The mental health requirements following a disaster vary according to the disaster impact and exposure and pre-existing vulnerabilities in the community. Some individuals, however, are more likely to have a higher than typical risk for major stress symptoms and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including those who attributed to the risk factors which are described in table 2 (Alexander, 2005;Bulling & Abdel Monem, 2009;National Center for PTSD, 2010;Young, et al, 1998).…”

Section: Mental Health Disorders In Natural and Human Made Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Location-based Service for Early Mental Health Interventions in Disaster Response Using Minimalistic Tele-operated Android Robots Technology

Vahidi

Mobasheri²,

Alimardani³

et al. 2014

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Providing early mental health services during disaster is a great challenge in the disaster response phase. Lack of access to adequate mental-health professionals in the early stages of large-scale disasters dramatically influences the trend of a successful mental health aid. In this paper, a conceptual framework has been suggested for adopting cellphone-type tele-operated android robots in the early stages of disasters for providing the early mental health services for disaster survivors by developing a locationbased and participatory approach. The techniques of enabling GI-services in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environment were studied to overcome the limitations of current centralized services. Therefore, the aim of this research study is to add more flexibility and autonomy to GI web services (WMS, WFS, WPS, etc.) and alleviate to some degree the inherent limitations of these centralized systems. A P2P system Architecture is presented for the location-based service using minimalistic tele-operated android robots, and some key techniques of implementing this service using BestPeer were studied for developing this framework.

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Early mental health intervention after disasters

Cited by 47 publications

References 16 publications

Psychosocial support in disaster-affected communities

Psychosocial support in disaster-affected communities

The psychosocial consequences for children and young people who are exposed to terrorism, war, conflict and natural disasters

Towards a Location-based Service for Early Mental Health Interventions in Disaster Response Using Minimalistic Tele-operated Android Robots Technology

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