Discover Trauma Clearance Concept of PTSD from the Victims Involving in Volunteers Help Disaster Victims Avoid from PTSD by Volunteering ()
ABSTRACT
As we know that trauma means experience that causes intense physical and psychological
stress reaction in a big disaster or unfortunate encounter. After disaster, the victims engage in volunteer will get more
opportunities to take part in society and interact with more people. Especially the victims will get a new valuable experience with delight.
These experiences will cover up and clear the trauma experience. Actually, by
inviting victims involved in volunteer, we can find they re-get the value of
life and start a new life career. This article practically shares diverse
experiences regarding a lot of victims of Tzu Chi domestic and international
disaster relief activities which include 921 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake in 1999,
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004, Sichuan (Wenchuan) earthquake in Chinese Mainland in 2008, Morake typhoon of southern Taiwan in 2009, Typhoon
Haiyan of Philippine in 2013. We accumulated some examples of victim volunteers
and how they quit the invasion of PTSD
through the involvement of volunteering, Thousands of the victims get a
lot of valuable and delightful experiences that will invite the other victims
to participate the volunteer. This positive action will gradually be spread by
victims and set into impetus to the whole disaster area. Except for the group
type example of disaster victims’ volunteer, there is also the example of a lady who lost her husband and two
children. How she walked out from the biggest tragedy of her life
through volunteering as an interpreter.
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Lu, F. (2024) Discover Trauma Clearance Concept of PTSD from the Victims Involving in Volunteers Help Disaster Victims Avoid from PTSD by Volunteering.
Psychology,
15, 113-122. doi:
10.4236/psych.2024.151008.
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