Here is a report from Israel about supplying psychological support at the scenes of violence against humans. If I get in trouble for re-pasting the content, I'll take the blame--this is VERY IMPORTANT! I have wondered why there are not Emergency Rooms for people in psychological crises--this is yet another version of that dream. Thank you, people of Israel and to Israel 21C newsletter.
I have posted the beginning of the article below in italics:
Thirty Israeli EMTs, paramedics and doctors recently completed a training course qualifying them as psychotrauma volunteers and teachers for United Hatzalah, a private community-based network of voluntary first-responders across Israel.
The volunteers already started providing psychological first aid before the graduation ceremony on May 25, 2016. They responded to a bus bombing, three cases of sudden heart attack deaths and three incidents of crib death.
They will be on call whenever United Hatzalah is called to a scene of a terror attack, sudden death, child’s death, severe car accident, severe injuries, natural disaster, suicide and wartime trauma.
“The new psychotrauma unit is something that we have been working towards for a long time,” United Hatzalah Founder Eli Beer tells ISRAEL21c. He says the psychotrauma unit is the first in the world to be fully integrated within an emergency response organization.
To continue reading this article, go to: http://www.israel21c.org/heali...of-traumatic-events/
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