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Probable and Predictable Phases of Trauma or Disaster
Unitarian Universalist Trauma Response Ministry
- Pre-impact – before the event occurs
- Get education about community resources/responses/opportunities for training
- Pre-planning can include building safety review & inventory, discussion of emergency plans
- Impact – the event occurs
- Conduct an inventory & assessment of needs, damages, loss,
- Call in outside resources
- Utilize all sources to deliver services or begin to deliver assistance
- Post-impact Phase – the dust is beginning to settle
- Honeymoon stage is usually followed by disillusionment, disappointment, despair and a sense of being abandoned
- Re-entry phase
- Beginning to act, think, respond beyond the immediate reaction to the event
- Most of the major outside resources have withdrawn or lessened support
- Restructuring/construction phase
- Decisions have to be made about rebuilding, both individual and community
- A shift has occurred in worldview that is effecting all aspects of life including how to rebuild, or perhaps not to
- An increased awareness that nothing will be the same again
- Anniversary times, services of recognition and memorials
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