Reading 12 Comments

Comments for Week 12 Reading Summaries

Mass Fatality Management following the South Asian Tsunami Disaster

This article illustrates some horrible sobering facts about the Tsunami.  We always here the number of casualties but then we fail to comprehend how much work needs to be done to clean up the bodies.

 

Early psychological intervention following a natural disaster: A case study with a victim buried under rubble for 124 hours

What a tremendous story of survival.  I think this article really helps us to understand the importance of the psychological damage that needs to be addressed.  We can spend so much of our focus on making sure everyone is physically rescued that we assume everything will be okay once they are safe.  But really the work has only begun as some people will require a lifetime of counseling to cope with what has happened.