Psychosocial understanding of emergency actions and stress due to recue interventions
APSPE, in English: “Psycho-Social Care ForEmergencies” is the translation of a concept created in Germany by an investigative group of community psychology. It is a concept, in which are included all psycho-social activities during and after a critical incident. It deals on the one hand wi...
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Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/30612 |
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| Sumario: | APSPE, in English: “Psycho-Social Care ForEmergencies” is the translation of a concept created in Germany by an investigative group of community psychology. It is a concept, in which are included all psycho-social activities during and after a critical incident. It deals on the one hand with persons from a directly affected population, on the other hand with the indirectly affected persons from intervention groups. The effect of a critical event alsoon physically not injured people and their consequent needs is shown. The author also elaborates the demands coming out of that and how a psycho-social understanding of stress can lead to an adequate concept of primary and secondary psycho-social prevention. The body – mind reactions of the affected persons stress originate in resource- disequilibrium of individuals (also biologically) and communities. As the reactions are very disturbing they call for immediate support by the community, peers. Whoever it is they need not to be trained psychologists, because their job is not to treat pathologies, but to assist or care for individuals or groups with normal and natural reactions due to a critical incident or a catastrophe. The article elaborates how the last ten years have slowly led to a consensus in Germany between all the implied professional groups. Today the concept enables the responsible structures to plan according to a scientific community psychology understanding, the assistance for the needs and demands during and after emergencies. Working with peers is in order to lower the threshold for help seeking by the people, who suffer. In a nutshell it is a sort of crisis intervention which deals with the stress due to a sudden and unexpected event. The goal is self-empowerment of individuals and communities so that they can bounce back and return as fast as possible to an independent, autonomous and meaningful life. |
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