Emergency Management Resource Guide

 


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Critical Incident Stress M   
   ∙ Teachers Helping Children   
   ∙ Info Sheet for Parents
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   ∙ Age Approp CISM
   ∙ Talking Method
  
Drawing Method
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Disaster and Their Effects

Disasters and Their Effects

What is a disaster?

A disaster is a devastating, catastrophic event that can be life threatening and injury producing, which may create the following distressful experiences:

Potential experiences or feelings:

Sense of fear, worry
Disruption of home, routine, etc.
Feeling that one’s life was threatened
Witnessing injuries, death, pain
Feeling trapped and isolated
Being out of control of something threatening to life’s basics:
           food, shelter, clothing, people, comfort...even life itself
Having flashbacks of other catastrophes
Feeling cut-off from services
Being separated from loved ones
Having a sense of mortality
Feeling "survivor guilt"
Children who are forced to become "parents" to adults
            who are scared or worried

Symptoms of Distress in Children

As a result of traumatic experiences some children will show a variety of symptoms of distress. The teacher must first know a child’s baseline ("usual") behavior and cultural/ethnic responses before he/she can identify "unusual" or problem behavior in a child.

Symptoms:

1)  Any unusual complaints of illness

2)  Keeping isolated from the rest of the group
3)  Child seems so pressured, anxious that he/she somehow dominates,
               has to distract others, or is otherwise in need of attention
4)  Changed behavior/appearance
5)  Resistant to opening up
             (however, child might just be shy, may have language or cultural barrier)
6)  No eye contact
7)  Difficulty concentrating, can’t focus
8)  "Feisty" or hyperactive/silly, giddy
9)  Any emotional display; crying, "regressed" behavior (less than age-appropriate)
10) Lack of emotional expression
11) Poor performance
12) Can’t tolerate change; can’t move to next task
13) Lethargic, apathetic
14) Easily startled, jumpy

 


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