10 years in the blink of an eye. The ruins disappeared and the home was completely renewed. However, under a peaceful life, the pain hidden deep in people’s hearts is difficult to completely disappear.
The Wenchuan earthquake has passed 10 years in a flash. This shocking disaster also kicked off the prelude to large-scale post-disaster psychological intervention in my country.
”The world kisses me with pain, and I respond with singing.” When the road is paved again, when the house is Babaylan 1990 cloth draw House stands again, we relive the stories of rebirth of strong and reborn with sorrow, gently walk into the depths of the return of the peaceful life of witnesses, and find and think about the effectiveness and future of post-disaster psychological intervention.
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Let the injured heart come out of the shadow
”Thank you for accompanying me through that period of time in your life. Accompaniment makes me strong.”
The 10 years since the Wenchuan earthquake, Chen Ting still receives letters from students who had accepted her psychological intervention. Sometimes it is an unnamed greeting card with Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw their current situation.
Chen Ting Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw is a psychiatrist at the Mental Health Center of Sichuan University Babaylan 1990 cloth drawWestern Chinese Medicine Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Hospital. After the earthquake, she rushed to Juyuan Middle School, Dujiangyan, the worst-hit area, to conduct post-earth psychological intervention. She still remembers that when she first gave emotional guidance to teachers in the Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw tent, “the scene was crying.”
A young teacher couple in the school was busy organizing students to escape when the earthquake occurred, and their daughter was tripped by the falling stones and eventually failed to run out. At that time, the couple was very guilty and couldn’t fall asleep every night.
”As soon as I close my eyes, I will be the face of the child. I always feel that she is blaming me…” My wife said to Chen Ting crying.
”They are in pain and cannot be enlightened directly.” Without too much words, Chen Ting silently Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw accompanied the couple, “remind” them to eat and rest normally, and also organized them to play basketball with students.
”Half a month later, after playing basketball, everyone was sweating all over, and the couple suddenly hugged each other and cried bitterly.” Chen Ting knew that they “thought through”.
”Earthquakes cause great inner pain to those who survive. Many times, we cannot rush to treat, but should let them heal themselves through companionship. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw” said Chen Ting.
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As the largest hospital in the southwest region, the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Babaylan 1990 clothes drawn was sent out several medical rescue teams for a time to intervene in psychological crisis. The draw team is one of them.
”At the centralized resettlement site of disaster victims, many victims always have a confused face.” said Professor Deng Hong, psychologist. There was a 4-year-old child who saw his mother die and never eat, drink or speak. The psychiatrists of Deng Hong’s team accompanied him and comforted him from time to time. Finally, the child finally cried and his emotions were vented.
The entire Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area has no blind spots of psychological intervention. Even in the remote Qingchuan County, two psychologists, Zhu Hongru and Ren Zhengjia, went to conduct intervention and also provided drug treatment for some patients with severe stress response.
Deng Hong’s team also trained a group of local teachers and doctors in Beichuan, so that they can identify and intervene in basic psychological problems, leaving behind a team of psychological comforters that “never evacuate”.
The vitality of the “Wenchuan Experience”
The Wenchuan earthquake brought psychological intervention into people’s vision. In the Yushu, Lushan and Ludian earthquakes that occurred later, the psychological intervention after the disaster was becoming more and more timely, the pattern became more and more standardized, and the effect became more and more obvious.
Zhang Wei, Party Secretary of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, said that psychological intervention after the Wenchuan earthquake has accumulated rare experience for post-disaster emergency psychological intervention. What is particularly valuable is that he found a set of psychological intervention methods suitable for local people.
When people are immersed in grief and are at a loss, the psychologist organizes everyone to weave embroidery together, and even play mahjong. These activities helped the affected people release their emotions and gradually calm down their moods, and the effect was very good.
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After the Lushan earthquake, due to the experience of Wenchuan, the psychological crisis intervention team first conducted a dragnet investigation of the affected people and intervened in a timely manner on key groups with casualties at home, which significantly reduced the number of cases of serious psychological problems.
In the view of Wu Weili, a psychological counseling and treatment expert at Xihua University, post-earth psychological intervention must be divided into different stages.
A week after the earthquake is mainly about companionship, and we cannot rush to intervene and treat. In many cases, we just chat and activities together. Between one week and one month, people with different conditions need to be classified and preliminary PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) diagnosis is required; after one month, key groups should be subjected to professional trauma treatment and rely on the community for mental rehabilitation.
”Everyone has their own ‘trauma map’ and ‘resource map’. We need to figure out where their trauma comes from and mobilize resources that make them feel positive and help them heal themselves,” said Wu Weili.
IVGao Jinying, the coordinator of the Hong Kong project in Chengdu after the disaster, believes that post-earthquake psychological intervention requires collaboration in multiple social fields, and weaving a full-coverage psychological “safety net” together.
For example, when some elderly mothers who lose their children get pregnant again, in addition to psychological counseling, they also need someone to help them contact obstetricians and gynecologists and explain some maternity and birth knowledge, which is also an important factor in keeping them healthy.
The earthquake also changed the diagnosis and treatment methods of psychologists.Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw toBabaylan 1990 cloth draw. Deng Hong said that in the past, doctors were used to waiting for patients to come to the office. After the earthquake, doctors began to take the initiative to go deep into the disaster area and provide psychological counseling at home.
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“Protracted war” is only the beginning
10 years are just the beginning
10 years in the blink of an eye. The ruins disappeared and the home was completely renewed. However, under the calm life of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, the pain hidden deep in people’s hearts is difficult to completely disappear.
Zhang Wei believes that psychological Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawintervention in this “Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawprotracted war” is far from over. “Post-disaster psychological intervention should move from emergency intervention to normalization. 10 years is not the end, but a new beginning.”
”The US post-9/11 psychological intervention plan lasts for 20 years. Our post-disaster psychological intervention must also be normalized and long-term, including establishing a complete psychological intervention network in the community and timely intervening in various psychological problems.” Zhang Wei said.
Some psychological experts said that to achieve the normalization of post-disaster psychological intervention, we must also pay attention to cultivating a local psychological professional team. Wu Weili said that many post-disaster psychological assistance practices at home and abroad have proved that whether a qualified local psychological assistance team can be established after a major disaster is the key to the success of psychological intervention.
After more than four years of continuous work and exploration, Wu Weili’s team helped Wenchuan earthquake zone build a localized training model for psychological assistance teams, forming a local psychological assistance work team with a complete basic, backbone and core levels.
At Dujiangyan Juyuan Middle School, a campus psychological intervention system has been established. Psychological teacher Peng Lan said that every grade of the school now has psychological courses, a special psychological counseling room is also set up, equipped with full-time teachers.
”Psychological intervention needs to shift from treatment to prevention, and schools are a very suitable place for proactive prevention.”Babaylan 1990 cloth drawPeng Lan said.
Source｜Banyuetan
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Editor｜Lu Hang