Below is a Tot Training in Psychosocial Support! This quiz is designed to help you test out what you know about mechanisms put in place to help society heal psychological wounds and rebuild social structures after an emergency or a critical event. Take it up and get to see how helpful you are to those around you in those times.
Is an event outside the range of an individual’s usual experience
Can be experienced as extremely threatening to those involved, accompanied by feelings of powerlessness, horror or terror
Is any event that causes stress to an individual or group
The ability to resist and show no signs of distress during a crisis event
The ability to cope with challenges and difficulties without help from others
The ability to “bounce back” and maintain a new balance when having experienced a crisis event
Means actions that address both the psychological and social needs of individuals, families and communities
Means interventions aimed at curing mental health problems
Aims to enhance the self-promoted recovery and resilience of the affected individual, group and community
Focused mainly on the treatment of mental health problems
Focused primarily on individuals
A community-based approach to facilitate the resilience of the affected population
Also aimed at maintaining the health and well-being of staff and volunteers.
Psychosocial support is not relevant as a component of basic services such as food, clean water, health care, shelter, and protection
In order to avoid the development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder it is important to start specialized mental health treatment as soon as possible for everybody
A psychosocial response should include screening for disabling levels of post-traumatic stress in the affected persons in the first days after the events have occurred
Traumatic memories have to be talked about at length
Avoidance is never a good thing
Trying to forget about the event as soon as possible is necessary for coping
Avoidance can help a person get on with practical tasks following a traumatic event but over time can stop us thinking, feeling, sharing and managing distress
Can cause changes in a person’s behavior
Cannot cause physical reactions
Is likely to affect social relations
Impacts differently depending on the individual, duration of stress and support given
Are purely the responsibility of medical personnel
Are relevant when affected persons suffer from problems that demand professional support
Can be made without informing the individuals concerned
Should always be made as quickly as possible, even without prior consultation with a supervisor or program manager
Seeking information about the welfare of loved ones
Aggressive and violent behavior
Reaching out to others for help and support
It is common that persons’ reactions are varied and changing
Affected persons usually realize the full impact of the event and experience intense emotional reactions right away
Affected persons usually begin to integrate the experience into her/his world- and self-view
Is a normal emotional reaction to the loss of a significant other
Grieving is an individual process independent from cultural norms
Is one of the common emotional reactions for people that have experienced a loss
Emotional recognition of the loss
Forgetting the lost person
Learning to tolerate and manage the feelings of grief
Making practical adjustments
Remind the person that things will change soon, say things like “time heals all wounds”, “it will soon pass” etc.
Acknowledge the loss
Remember that grieving is a process that may take a long time
Encourage the grieving person to make major life changes
Complex and ambiguous emotional reactions
Religious and spiritual beliefs are challenged
Long-lasting dissociation
Shock reactions
Such as public ceremonies acknowledging the deceased are important to a community
Are not important in the process of grieving
Are only important for children?
Are a means to address common emotions and experiences
The social and psychological foundation for the individual
A group of people who have a shared identity
A loosely related group of people who have little in common
Of importance in only rural settings
The positive state of being when an individual thrives in a positive social environment
Understood in the same way in every culture
Do not have to consider cultural norms
Are based on a mapping of needs and existing personal resources in a community
Can be implemented without involving the local community
Need to foster family and community support
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