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From his beginnings the living beings must have adapted themselves to his ambience, across instincts, strategies, skills, hardware and other elements that allow him to carry of better way the peculiarities of the way that surrounds them, it divides all of them of the cycle of the nature, such as fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc.
As a way of answering before these situations, the psychology not foreign to his responsibility before the application of his chore in more practical and urgent aspects, and following agreements and international projects on the matter, it has postulated the implementation of clear politics of prevention, intervention and persons' recovery and areas affected by emergencies and disasters.
We refer to the incorporation of the psychology (like science that studies the Human Behavior) in the emergency situations; in concrete and simple terms, the psychology of the emergencies refers to the study of the human behavior earlier, during and after situations related to the emergencies (without leaving because of it out the advances of the Management of Risk, but on the contrary, incorporating them), using for it skills and proper finds of the experience that inside the field of the emergencies and psychology exists. The emergency psychology more that to be a sum of skills originated from other specialties, is a new specialization, as there indicates Dr. Luis De Nicolás, Doctor of Psychology and Professor of the University of Deusto, Bilbao.
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The targets of the psychologist in help situation in case of emergency or disaster are:
To help psychologically, to diminish the total of the anxieties of the affected ones, that impressed by a traumatic emotional shock, they show a tendency towards the palsy or towards the hyperactivity, being able to derive both cases, in actions that provoke significant or major damages, to those of the original fact.
It helps to recover the emotional balance.
Prevention of future psychological damages post - traumatic
SKILLS USED DURING THE EMERGENCY
As soon as the emergency was initiated, during the development of this one and up to his term, there exist several skills and procedures that can be applied both by a specialist and by any trained person, it is already in order to solve some conflict, to prepare future pathologies or to modulate the behavior of the involved ones, avoiding or diminishing somehow future traumas or major consequences that the same emergency has already produced.
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- 1. Conflicts resolution: one of the situations in which the psychology of the emergency has enough that to say, concerns to the handling that it is necessary to realize before the presence of a situation in which the safety organisms or emergencies must look over the resolution of a conflict associated with one or more lives. An example of this type of situations forms the intervention before patients in attempt of suicide, the capture of hostages or the handling of disruptive passengers, between others.
- 2. Prevention of future pathologies and Handling of involved: other of the excellent aspects at the time of doing an intervention in psicoemergenciología has relation with preventing the involved ones in an emergency from suffering consequences that go beyond the proper ones of the event product of a bad handling in some of the stages of his intervention or resolution, in addition to handling and evaluating constantly the answers of the group, in order to desadaptativo controls precozmente any indication of fear, panic or another group behavior during the emergency.
- 3. The second aggression: any omission, mistake, unnecessary waiting, inopportune comment, inadequate attitude, incomplete information and other situations that taking collaborating as a target or the being divides of a procedure of recovery or intervention, they commit an outrage involuntarily and straight against the psychological indemnity of the involved one. (Araya, 1999).
- 4. Skills of Intervention in Crisis: they are technical that come mostly from the clinic, they are excellent at the time of being applied in groups or persons affected by some event.
- 5. Notification of death / bad news: the death notification is one of the most sensitive situations of realizing and it has some conditions that we must consider before carrying out it, conditions that are incorporated in this section of the emergency Psychology: How is the best way of notifying a death? How must it be done? What words must be used? Must not which words be used? There are some basic elements.
Ref.: Dr. Humberto Marín Uribe, Psychologist INKAN Chile
WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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