Psychosocial recovery is an important aspect of natural disaster recovery, it contributes to short and long term safety and health following first response crisis emergency. A bushfire has engulfed an entire town. There have been reports of many deaths and many casualties. Emergency response teams such as the ambulance, fire brigade, and police have completed their jobs. Three days after this disaster, a crisis intervention worker has been called to assist in the psychosocial recovery. This paper will be exploring the core crisis intervention areas which must be assessed by the crisis intervention worker in this situation and why. Also, the changes and shifts in crisis intervention work away from mandatory Critical Incident Stress Debriefing [CISD] towards Psychological
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7). PFA is one the ways in which crisis intervention workers can help provide social support, mental health response and improve function to better meet needs such as security, physical safety, and reuniting survivors with their family immediately following disaster recovery (Urbis, 2010, p. 32). The ethical considerations that a crisis intervention worker must take into account prior PFA is their own bias towards others and their willingness to respect the privacy, dignity, and culture of survivors which includes avoiding forcefulness, exploitation of others, giving false promises or asking for money from survivors for helping them, (World Health Organisation [WHO], 2011, p. 9). Another ethical concern is choosing who to attend to first as WHO suggests: children and adolescents, pregnant women, individuals with physical or mental impairments, and people who are at risk of violence or
7). PFA is one the ways in which crisis intervention workers can help provide social support, mental health response and improve function to better meet needs such as security, physical safety, and reuniting survivors with their family immediately following disaster recovery (Urbis, 2010, p. 32). The ethical considerations that a crisis intervention worker must take into account prior PFA is their own bias towards others and their willingness to respect the privacy, dignity, and culture of survivors which includes avoiding forcefulness, exploitation of others, giving false promises or asking for money from survivors for helping them, (World Health Organisation [WHO], 2011, p. 9). Another ethical concern is choosing who to attend to first as WHO suggests: children and adolescents, pregnant women, individuals with physical or mental impairments, and people who are at risk of violence or