Interventions for survivors of the tsunami disaster: Report from Sri Lanka

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaithri A. Fernando
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Tsunami Disaster

Crisis Intervention after the Tsunami in Phuket and Khao Lak

Crisis ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bronisch ◽  
Markos Maragkos ◽  
Christoph Freyer ◽  
Andreas Müller-Cyran ◽  
Willi Butollo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
German Government ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Intervention Teams ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Crisis Intervention Teams ◽  
Set Up

After the Tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, and Africa, the German government set up a crisis task force that implemented crisis-intervention teams covering Thailand (Phuket and Khao Lak), Sri Lanka, and Sumatra. Two crisis teams were sent to Phuket; the first one on 28 December 2004, and the second one on 3 January 2005, each for an average of 1 week. This intervention was primarily for the benefit of German citizens and their expatriates and relatives caught up in a major catastrophe as well as the German helpers. This article describes the organizational structures of the German crisis intervention, protective factors for the helpers, psychiatric syndromes - often acute traumata, the problems of the identification process for relatives, and crisis intervention itself. Consequences for further crisis intervention after natural disasters are discussed.

Psychosocial and Ethical Response to Disasters: A SWOT Analysis of Post-Tsunami Disaster Management in Sri Lanka

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chesmal Siriwardhana ◽  
Suwin Hewage ◽  
Ruwan Deshabandu ◽  
Sisira Siribaddana ◽  
Athula Sumathipala
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Ethical Response
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