1. European Commission Project: European Guideline for Target Group-Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare—Implementation
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Stepan Vymetal, Albert Deistler, Gisela Zurek, Francisco Orengo, Claudia Schedlich, Robert Bering, Michaela Krtickova, and Magda Rooze
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Population ,Poison control ,Guidelines as Topic ,Emergency Nursing ,Suicide prevention ,Disaster Medicine ,Occupational safety and health ,Disasters ,Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ,Nursing ,Humans ,Mass Screening ,Medicine ,European Union ,Survivors ,education ,Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Emergency Responders ,Social Support ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Guideline ,humanities ,Early Diagnosis ,Emergency Medicine ,business ,Psychosocial ,Disaster medicine - Abstract
After disasters, the individual health and well-being of first responders and affected population are affected for years. Therefore, psychosocial help is needed. Although most victims recover on their own, a minority of survivors, members of rescue teams, or relatives develop long-term, disaster-related psychic disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This subgroup especially should receive timely and appropriate psychosocial help. Many European countries offer post-disaster psychosocial care from a variety of caregivers (i.e., professionals and volunteers, non-governmental organizations, church or commercial organizations). Therefore, European standards for providing post-disaster psychosocial support currently is required. This article describes the project European Guideline for Target Group-Oriented Psychosocial Aftercare—Implementation, supported by the European Commission.
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- 2011
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