Mission aftercare

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The aftercare is intended to enable the stressful processing of experiences and their internal representation for the emergency services or helpers in the event of disasters and accidents. This involves volunteer and full-time emergency services from all participating organizations such as medicine and care, police , fire brigade , rescue services or disaster control. The aim is to prevent potentially pathological and long-term recurring stressful traumas. In the meantime, many aid organizations systematically resort to this form of support for their employees for certain deployment scenarios and train sub-units for crisis intervention in the rescue service . The naming is partly inconsistent, because the different organizations are confronted with such triggering events differently. In the specialist literature it is often described under the English term " Critical Incident Stress Management ". This English term is also associated with the most widespread training concept in Germany (following the Ramstein disaster in 1988). After the ICE accident in Eschede in 1998 , the emergency aftercare was used on a large scale in Germany .

The mental mechanism of these sudden memories (flashback) and the associated psychosomatic disorders , which are feared by emergency services after stressful large-scale operations and can be observed again and again, can not be scientifically explained in detail. The possible effect of aftercare as a prevention model for those affected has not been scientifically clarified either.

See also

literature

  • JT Mitchell, GS Everly et al. a :: Follow-up manual. Psychosocial support using the Mitchell method. 3. Edition. Stumpf & Kossendey Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019, ISBN 978-3-943174-96-0 .

Web links

  • Help for those on duty. Aftercare for police forces - experiences from Erfurt. In: German police. No. 7, 2002, pp. 6-15. (www.gdp.de , pdf file)
  • Emergency pastoral care in Germany (a coordination office)
  • Sebastian Roth: Crisis education - training and further education of crisis intervention helpers. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-3537-4 .