@article{ref1,
title="Crisis intervention after the Tsunami in Phuket and Khao Lak",
journal="Crisis",
year="2006",
author="Bronisch, Thomas and Maragkos, Markos and Freyer, Christoph and Muller-Cyran, Andreas and Butollo, Willi and Weimbs, Regina and Platiel, Peter",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="42-47",
abstract="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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0227-5910",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}