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 kissed me with pain, Babaylan and I responded to it with singing.” When the road is paved and when the house stands up again, we relive the stories of strong rebirth with sadness, 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 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 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 counsel to teachers in the tent, “Komiks cried in the spot.”
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 child’s faceKomiks. I always feel that she is blaming me…” My wife cried and said to Chen Ting.
”They are too painful to be straightCinema is recommended. “Without too much, 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, and the couple suddenly hugged each other and cried bitterly. “Chen Ting knew that they “thought through”.
”The earthquake caused great inner pain to those who survived. Many times, we cannot rush to treat, but should let them heal themselves through companionship. “Chen Ting said.
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The Babaylan is the largest hospital in the southwest region. Sichuan University West China Hospital was sent as soon as possible after the earthquake. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan has several medical rescue teams, and the psychological crisis intervention team is one of them. “In the centralized resettlement of victims, many victims always have a confused face. “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.
Cinema The entire Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area has no blind spots for psychological intervention. Even in the remote Qingchuan County, two psychologists Zhu Hongru and Ren Zheng went to conduct intervention and also provided drug treatment for some patients with severe stress response.
Deng Hong’s teamKomiks also trained a group of local teachers and doctors in Beichuan to allow them to identify and intervene in basic psychological problems, leaving behind a team of psychological comforters that “never evacuate”.
Cinema ”Wenchuan ExperienceThe vigor of “The Vitality of ‘Wenchuan earthquake brought psychological intervention into people’s vision. In the Yushu earthquake, Lushan earthquake, and Ludian earthquake that occurred later, the psychological intervention after the disaster was more and more timely, and the pattern was more and more standardized, and the effect was more and more obvious. Zhang Wei, secretary of the Party Committee of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, said that psychological intervention after the Wenchuan earthquake has accumulated rare experience for post-disaster psychological intervention, especially href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksWhat is valuable is that it has explored a set of psychological intervention methods suitable for local people.
When people are overwhelmed in grief, psychologists organize everyone to weave embroidery together, and even play mahjong. These activities help the affected people release their emotions and gradually calm their mood, and the effect is 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 cases of serious psychological problems.
In the view of Wu Weili, a psychological counseling and treatment expert at Xihua University, psychological intervention after the earthquake must be divided into different stages.
The week after the earthquake is mainly accompanied, href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema cannot rush to intervene and treat, but often they just chat and engage in activities together. Between one week and one month, people with different conditions need to be classified and a preliminary PTSD (Posttraumatic stress disorder Cinema are diagnosed; after one month, the seriousness must be taken.Site the population for professional trauma treatment, Babaylan and rely on the community for spiritual 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.
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, the doctors began to actively 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 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 psychological intervention in the United States after 9/11 is expected to last for 20 years. Our post-disaster psychological intervention should 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 can a major disaster be built.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 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,” said Peng Lan.
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Editor｜Lu Hang