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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 and when the house stands up again, we relive the stories of rebirth of strong and reborn with sorrow. We gently walk into the depths of the witnesses’ return to a peaceful life, and find and think about the results and future of post-disaster psychological intervention.
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Let the wounded heart come out of the shadow
”Thank you for accompanying me through that period of 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 from time to time. Sometimes Komiks is an unnamed greeting card with their current situation.
Chen Ting is a psychological doctor at the Mental Health Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University. 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 tent, she “cried all over the place”.
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.
”Close your eyes, it is the child’s face. I always feel that she is blaming me…” My wife cried and said to Chen Ting. “They are in so much pain that they can’t enlighten me directly. “Without too much, Chen Ting silently accompanied the couple, “remind” them to eat and rest normally, and also organized them to play basketball with their students. “Half a month later, after playing basketball, everyone was sweating, and the couple suddenly hugged each other and cried bitterly. “Chen Ting knew that they “thought through”. “The earthquake brought great inner pain to the surviving people. Many times, we cannot rush to treat, but should let them heal themselves through companionship. “Chen Ting said.
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As the largest hospital in the southwest region, Sichuan University West China Hospital immediately dispatched multiple medical rescue teams after the earthquake, and the psychological crisis intervention team was one of them.
”At the centralized resettlement site of disaster victims, many disaster victims were on their faces href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema is always confused. “The psychologist Professor Deng Hong said. A 4-year-old child who saw his mother die never eat, drink or speak. The psychologists 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 was not blind spots for psychological intervention. Even in Qingchuan County, which is located far away in Cinema, two psychologists Zhu Hongru and Ren Zhengjia went to intervene, which was still serious.Patients with stress response were treated with medication.
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 sight. 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 the 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 has explored 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 people who had casualties at home, resulting in serious psychological problems. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks cases have decreased significantly.
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 only chat and activities together. Between one week and one month, people in different situations need to be classified and preliminary PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) diagnosis; KomiksLater, professional trauma treatment should be provided to key groups and mental rehabilitation should be relied on the community.
”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 repair themselves.” Wu Weili said.
Gao Jinying, the coordinator of the Sichuan Post-Disaster Psychological Rehabilitation Training and Service Program Hong Kong Project in Chengdu, believes that post-earthquake psychological intervention requires collaboration in multiple social fields to jointly weave a full-coverage psychological “safety net”.
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. 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”, 10 years Komiks is just the beginning
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.
Zhang Wei believes that the “protracted war” of psychological intervention 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 psychology experts say that to normalize 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 it can be established after a major disaster.A qualified local psychological assistance team 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 to build a localized training model for psychological assistance teams, forming a local psychological assistance work team with a complete level of 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.” Komiks Peng Lan said.
Source｜Banyuetan
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Editor｜Lu Hang