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Old 09-08-2005, 04:44 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by wolf
The majority of people affected by a disaster are actually pretty resilient. Meet their basic needs for safety, food, water, and shelter, and they do well. It's unlikely that folks who didn't need medications before the hurricane struck will need them in the aftermath. It's mostly about supportive counselling, in some cases specialized grief counselling, and doing things that will normalize the experience for them.
I am rather surprised in that list of actions, that psychological triage does not appear to be part of the process. I would have expected 'psychological triage' to be implemented as part of a system when disasters were large. Or is such triage really inherent in the response?
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