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Disaster Aftercare Services
88 Kent RoadSwindon
Wilts
SN1 3NW
Tel: 0870 765 0368
Web: www.disasteraftercaresvs.co.uk
Best time to telephone: Normal office hours
DAS helps survivors cope with the psychological aftermath of:
- Abuse of all kinds
- Aid Workers activities
- Attacks of all kinds
- Bereavement
- Birth Trauma
- Bullying
- Criminal activity
- Emergency Services activities
- Hostage Situations
- Medical Mishaps or Negligence
- Military Activities
- Murder
- Paedophilia
- Rape
- Road Traffic Accidents
- Torture
- Suicides
- Terrorism
DAS helps survivors of disasters to deal with their traumatic responses, using a humanitarian approach. This is primarily a Rogerian "person-centred" approach where most of all people can feel relatively safe and TIR (short term intervention) to reduced traumatic symptomology.
DAS offers Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and aims to:
- Reduce the probability of chronic post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) developing in people who have experienced a traumatic event.
- Reduce unwarranted stress in labour relationships.
- Provide Critical Incident Stress Debriefing to groups of employees who have experienced a traumatic event.
- Provide appropriate psychological aftercare for survivors and their families.
- Provide advocacy.
Checked: May 2006
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