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Early psychological responses to traumatic injury

✍ Scribed by Arieh Y. Shalev; Shaul Schreiber; Tamar Galai

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 537 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0894-9867
DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490060403

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✦ Synopsis

Sixteen injured survivors of a terrorkt act, hospitalized in a large medical center, were followed dalry by a team of mental-health consultants. The survivors' rapid& changing mental states and the subsequent responses of their careproviders are described Intrusive recollections of the event were experienced by all, however with various degrees of distress and arousal Early psychological assistance was aimed at increasing the survivors' sense of self-control and thew mastery over secondary stressors. Flexible and skilled therapeutic technique was required to meet the survivors' changing needs. The consultants' own emotional burden was addressed by structuring the interventions and providing opporiunities for dkclosure.

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