Assistance & Treatment of Emergency Victims Fourteen Principles Module©

Abstract

 1. Handling Information & Its Sources

Sources, facts, conclusions& interpretations, meanings, verification, cross-checking sources, relevancy. Investigating alternative explanations, "risk expectancy" and positive thinking.

2. Psychological Debriefing, Information Processing Through Conversations

 Emotions "ventilation", legitimacy as a person, problem solving (thinking aloud), problem solving by others, shared problem solving.

3. Task Distribution and Practice

Burden sharing, personal responsibility, procedures practicing, extensive lesson learning, mutual control and support.

4. Being Busy

Activeness to reinforce feeling of situation control, increasing positive thinking (opportunity to do something positive), creating distraction from the threatening situation.

5. Being Together

Mutual support, feeling wanted, spending time sharing positive experiences, showing tolerance and patience, increasing humor, creating proximity.

6. Shaping Behavior

Role modeling to enhance accountability and strengthen social order. The use of role modeling to demonstrate emotional control and performance requirements.

7. Accumulating Experience

Dynamic incremental problem solving, positive criticism and resolving, comparing and diagnosing progress, increasing control.

8. Systems Reliability and Improvement

Clarify risk warning systems' reliability and information about current and future expectations by creating "a light at the end of the tunnel".

9. Highlighting Expectancy for Positive Recovery

Getting back to routine (work, studies, quality, production, time schedule etc.) should be clarified in a consecutive unequivocal way.

10. Bonuses and Indulgences

Rewards for old and young, workers and managers so as to improve feelings and emotions aimed at strengthening coherence and linked to mission completion.

11. Relaxation and Rest

Utilizing "dead" hours for resting and relaxation conditions (quiet and isolation, air conditioning etc.). Enables physical & emotional energy saving for "tough" times.

12. Developing Self Strength and Coping Resources

Enhance sources for individual coping (B.A.S.I.C.PH Model) to maximize personal potential developed through mediation and organizational intervention.

13. Fury Legislation

Create a controllable structure for releasing frustration and anger through structured ceremonies, including timing, regulation and documentation

14. Developing Functional Community Resilience

Utilize the "diamond hardiness" model for creating functional community social resilience. This enables positive and practical coping through the individual family and community.