Read “Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid-Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence,” and answer the following questions:
a. How do the five essential elements of mass trauma intervention identified by Hobfoll address and treat psychological symptoms of disaster victims? Do you think these elements address the needs of all individuals affected by a disaster? Explain your answers.
b. Do you think these principles are accurate and comprehensive, or should they be modified? Explain how they are accurate or provide a suggestion to improve the principles.
People who have been living in an environment where there is lots of disaster orviolence find ways to cope with in in there own way. There can be long termeffect and it could change that person’s way of thinking, wether it’s a short termeffect or long term. Silke states, “It seems reasonable to assume that directvictims, who experience multiple forms of exposure to an incident, may havedifferent patterns of exposure and may respond differently than indirect victims.”Therefore Hobfoll state ” the Five Elements of Immediate and Mid-Term MassIntervention are:
1. Promote sense of safety
2. Promote calming.
3. Promote sense of self– and collective efficacy.