Seven
Basic Techniques of Psychosocial Care
o Relaxation and Recreation
o Externalization of Interests
o Social support
o Active listening
o Empathy
o Ventilation
o Spirituality
Principles
of Psychosocial Support
o Support system are crucial for recovery
o Attitude of the caregiver
Psychosocial
Intervention in post Disastrous Situation
o Disaster mental health services must be uniquely tailored to the
communities they serve.
o Survivors respond to active interest and concern
o Interventions must be appropriate to the phase of disaster
o Most people pull themselves together during and after a disaster.
However they function with less effectiveness
o Daily living problems causes emotional reactions in many survivors.
o No one who experience or witness the event is untouched by it.
o Disaster stress and grief reaction are normal responses to an
abnormal situation.
o Disaster results in two types of trauma: Individual and Collective
A.Grief
Counseling
o What is Grief?
o Stages of Grief
Dental Anger Bargaining Depression
o Manifestations of Normal Grief
A. Task of Mourning
o To accept the reality of the loss
o To experience the pain of grief
o To adjust to an environment with the deceased missing
B. Facilitating uncomplicated grief
C. Patterns of Abnormal Grieving
o Ambivalent grief
o Chronic grief