CRISIS INTERVENTION

Crisis intervention: Dealing with the death of a loved one

Crisis intervention: Dealing with the death of a loved one

Introduction

The death of a loved one, whether or not sudden and / or unexpected, is one of major life crises, death of a spouse is the most urgent crisis may affect the life of a person, that of a close family member or close friend involved in scale. Vital to any crisis, there are psychological consequences, which refer in most cases, but the how reporting of those deaths, as well as psychological support at the beginning of the duel, can help reduce the manifestation of such consequences, its severity and possible chronicity as well as mortality There is also a growing social and political demand for psychological support in any crisis (Goodman & Stone, 2009). This lawsuit began with the intervention psychological catastrophe, in our country, the tragedy of camping Biescas in 1996 was the first to create the need for psychological care victims and their families.

Given this popularization of psychological support in disasters, there is the discussion of whether you actually need psychological support, and at last, after all, throughout the history of mankind there have been tragedies that personal and material losses entailed without the subjects involved count with psychological support. "The answer is linked to the evolution of society and demands that the subject he claims as part of it. In an underdeveloped country the concern is to have covered the basic needs to survive (Graber, 2011). In an industrialized country that is seeking is the quality of life, not just survive, but calls for cover society needs a "luxury" quality of life. In my opinion, we must add that we have a society "Welfare State", a hedonistic society, who flees and avoids the pain, society is to observe the rituals that accompany the fact of death have been shortened or disappeared, the children were avoiding the knowledge of death even in animals ("the chick has gone ").

That is why, when the catastrophe happens (and let's not forget that for the affected family member, death of a loved one close is a disaster), the individuals are not prepared for it, and draw on everything they can to continue to avoid that pain. All these aspects, the influence on public health, the popularization of psychological demand in times of crisis, as the genuine need for same, and the large increase in recent times of disasters natural, attacks, and accidents related to transportation, make it increasingly more necessary that the psychologist has the knowledge and skills necessary to provide psychological support in these situations. There were many trained professionals to work in these cases, a high percentage of psychologists who presented IFEMA purposely did not have the minimum knowledge needed for crisis intervention and grief, had never seen a corpse, so could hardly join in recognition of bodies (Graber, 2011). And do not forget that the psychologist is immersed in the same society and avoidant we have described, so ...