Dear Fung
Children can benefit greatly from art and play therapy. It does not
need to be a formal session. Art making, if it is not didactic, and
effecive "listening" is used in the art process and for the resulting
images (reflecting what's in the images) can be very helpful. It's
very simple as one can work with large groups of kids at one time, and
it does not look like "therapy", so no one gets antsy.
Please see this 10 minute instructional video on Disaster & Trauma
work, based on the tsunami in Sri Lanka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvWBJty3N2E
This is good for adults too, but culturally people seem to be more
comfortable watching kids do art.
Anita
2008/5/16 ayeletdep <ayeletdep@xxxxxxxxx>:
Dear Fung
Two very powerful techniques for treating Trauma are - EMDR (Eye
Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) and SE (Somatic Experiencing)
If you search both names in Google you will find a few websites for
each.
If you need I can collect some info and send to you a few
reccomendations from both methods regarding first aid in case of
recent trauma.
My heart is with you
Ayelet, Israel
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magnitude) in Sichuan province of China on May 12th. Chinese govt
Dear All,
Perhaps you may all learn from media that there's an earthquake(7.8
has responded swiftly by mobilizing more than 100,000 troops,
doctors, firemen, rescue teams to the areas. Thousands of people have
been saved but the dead tolls are now more than 20,000, and estimated
to rise more than 50,000. There could be more than 40,000 people
still buried or missing. Hundreds of thousands casualties. Five
million people are become homeless right now.
Societies
You may refer to the following BBC link for details.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7405103.stm
An appeal by International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent
http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/response/sichuan-earthquake/index.asp
counselling casualties, those children who lost their parents, those
China Government has called for volunteer psychotherapists to help
parents lost their children - many of them just have one child, and
those who lost their partners, friends, colleagues and fellow
students. Some of my constellation students have responded to this
and on their way to the distraous areas. However, psychotherapy is an
infant profession and most of therapists have received only very
basic training and what they are facing now is a huge grief of people
who are now in traumatic states.
please share some of your experience such that at least some quick
I would like to request your help:
1. Any people who have worked with traumatic states, could you
rules about crisis intervention can be learnt by helpers to offer
some relief to casualties? (e.g. By constellation approach or by any
other approaches.)
2. Could you please recommend some useful websites, readingmaterials, or any other means regarding how to deal with mass
distraous situation?
3. Could you please spread the messages to your friends that manyChinese people need help?
all you!
On behalf of Chinese people, I appreciate for any form of help from
reply to my personal email: ahfung@...
I don't want to divert the focus of this forum, please send your
Fung
from Hong Kong and China
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