Post-disaster post-traumatic stress disorder.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Post-disaster post-traumatic stress disorder [Keywords:] post-traumatic stress disorder China is the world’s most serious natural disasters, loss of one of the countries, all kinds of disaster impact on the public is increasingly subject to wide attention from all sectors of society. Shocked the world, ‘5 .12 ‘Sichuan earthquake make the whole society for serious concern about the degree of disaster relief efforts have reached an unprecedented level. A disaster caused by a variety of mental health problems, including acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety disorders, suicide, alcoholism and other behavioral problems in the aftermath of disasters have occurred at different times, of which the most post-traumatic stress disorder, cause for concern [1,2]. Post-traumatic stress disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD)) is a calamity or threatened by the bizarre events triggered by the strong fear, anxiety, helplessness, pain and other serious stress disorder, at least for 1 ~ 3 months, characterized by trauma or catastrophic events of long-standing awareness of the continuing increased recurring intrusion of memories or re-experience and accompanying avoidance response, etc., often cause significant psychological and social function impairment, the individual’s social activities, family life and occupational function caused by long-term devastating effects [3]. A post-disaster mental health problems After the occurrence of a major disaster often by various kinds of mental health problems. Norris et al [4] reviewed the past 20 years, 160 victims of major disasters on the study, the post-disaster mental health problems are divided into six categories: ① specific psychological barriers, such as PTSD, depression and anxiety disorders; ② Buffet heterosexual psychological distress; ③ health issues; ④ long-term housing and living problems; ⑤ depletion of natural resources; ⑥ the peculiar proble