The crisis intervention teams caught the victims and family members in their first great need after the Graz Killing Spree and offered them. Now the affected individual ways must find to continue. A psychologist explains what they look like and what they should pay attention to.
The crisis intervention teams for victims, family members and those who need acute help are available up to 48 hours after a traumatic event. This time has now expired. What is the next step for the many affected people now?
Just like some others, the Graz psychologist Alexander Tiesenhausen with a colleague offers free help for everyone who is affected. “Even now it is in the first place to create emotional safety. Responses, also a physical way, must be classified. It is important to talk about what happened, to create orientation and slowly bring some structure into the day.”
Forcing no conversations
The victims and family members are now in a phase where it was important to prevent post -traumatic stress disorders. “It is now important to have conversations, but not to impose them on and to show people that it is completely good to be anxious or angry. These are normal processes in our body.”
There are also a racing heart, nightmares, anxiety or concentration difficulties are completely adequate reactions. Just as – of course completely unfounded – feelings of guilt with those who are immediately affected if parents or teachers can prevent in the sense of “what could I have done, predict or recognize?”.
When a therapy is needed
“After two to four weeks, these disorders must gradually improve. If this does not happen or even deteriorates, psycho or trauma therapy is advisable,” says Tiesenhausen. It becomes absolutely alarming when people retire, avoid social contacts, develop suicidal thoughts or experience flashbacks: “There is a difference if I work something in my sleep or, for example, through a helicopter sound or a siren suddenly in the middle of experience.” Trauma therapies are used when these disorders last more than four weeks and have led to serious disorders in daily life.
Source: Krone
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