Practical Tips in Disaster Management Zone (Disaster Mental Health Management)

Many mental health professionals have a poor understanding of their role in a disaster response team. They are neither part of a pre-existing or post-disaster response team. They have to play a multi-dimensional role from educating, training, negotiating, administrative, fundraising, collaborative, skill transferring, treating, advocating and rehabilitating.

In addressing the spectrum of problems during post-disaster, mental health clinics in relief camps are useful in identifying and treating moderate-to-severe cases only. Hence, the role of a specialist as a clinician is very minimal. However, the specialist has a very important role in training local resources in simple community-based interventions. These include art therapy; informal education; group discussions; drama; structuring of daily activities; engaging in activities such as yoga, meditation, prayers, relaxation, sports, and games; spiritual activities; providing factual information; educating parents and teachers. They were intended to provide important components of psychosocial rehabilitation such as normalizing, stabilizing, socializing, defusing of emotions and feelings, and restoration of a sense of identification with others and of safety and security. Disaster management needs to follow the principle of democracy. That is ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’ for disaster assistance to be acceptable, accessible, adaptable, and adaptable for long-term community participation and empowerment

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