10 years in the blink of an eye. The ruins disappeared, and the home Komiks was completely renovated. 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 sings with it.” When the road is paved and when the house stands up again, we relive the stories of rebirth of strength and rebirth with sorrow, gently walk into the depths of the witnesses’ return to the peaceful life, and look for and think about the effectiveness 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. Sometimes it’s an unknown greeting card with their current situation.
Chen Ting is a psychiatrist 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.
”As soon as I close my eyes, I’m 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 directly enlighten them.” Without too many words, Chen Ting silently 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 TingKnowing that they “thought through”.
”The earthquake caused great inner pain to the surviving people. Many times, we cannot rush to treat them, but should let them be self-healed through companionship.” Chen Ting said.
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CinemaAs the largest hospital in the southwest region, Sichuan University West China Hospital sent several medical rescue services as soon as possible after the earthquake. The href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks team, the psychological crisis intervention 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 is a 4-year-old child who saw his mother die with his own eyes and never eat, drink, or speak. The psychology of Deng Hong’s team was with 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, Komiks, two psychiatrists, 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”.
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The Wenchuan earthquake brought psychological intervention into people’s vision.BabaylanIn the Yushu earthquake, Lushan earthquake and Ludian earthquake that occurred later, the psychological intervention after the disaster was more timely, the pattern became 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 to find 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 join usKomiks weaving and even playing mahjong. These activities helped the affected people release their emotions and gradually calm 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 inspection of the affected people, and intervened in a timely manner on key groups with casualties at home, which significantly reduced cases of serious psychological problems.
In the view of Wu Weili, a psychological counseling and treatment expert at Xihua University, post-earth psychological intervention should be divided into different stages.
A week after the earthquake is mainly for companionship, and no rush to intervene and treatment. Many times it is just chatting 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; after one month, professional trauma treatment should be performed for key groups and mental rehabilitation should be relied on the community.
”Everyone has their own ‘trauma map’ and ‘CinemaResource Map’, we need to figure out where their trauma comes from Babaylan and mobilize resources that make them feel positive to help them heal themselves. “Wu Weili said.
Sichuan Post-disaster Psychological RehabilitationCinema Training and Komiks Service Plan for Hong KongGao Jinying, the coordinator of the Du project, 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” is only the beginning
10 years are just the beginning. The ruins disappeared without seeing Babaylan, and their homes were 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 United States’ psychological intervention plan after 9/11 is 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 whether a qualified local psychological assistance team can be established after a major disaster is a key to the success of psychological intervention.
After more than 4 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 basic layer, backbone layer and nuclear layer.href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan A complete local psychological assistance work team Cinema.
At Dujiangyan Juyuan Middle School, a campus psychological intervention system has been established. Psychological teacher Peng Lan said that now the Cinema school has opened psychological courses in every grade, and Komiks has also set up a special psychological counseling room with full-time teachers.
”Psychological intervention needs to shift from treatment to prevention, and schools are a very suitable place for proactive prevention,” said Peng Lan.
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Editor｜Lu Hang