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Disasters in Australia can include bushfires, flooding, earthquakes and drought.
Follow the links below to find information about disasters and critical incidents.
Reviewed January 2009
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Trauma - how our body reacts
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Better Health Channel
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An event that endangers life or property can provoke distress reactions in the people involved. Brain chemicals put the mind on high alert and prime the nervous system, circulation and muscles to respond to the threat. This instinctive response helps us to deal with trauma and crisis, but leaves after effects.
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Oct 2009
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Trauma - after effects
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Better Health Channel
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Trauma and distress can trigger powerful physical and emotional reactions hours, days, weeks or even months after such events. Common emotional reactions include guilt, fear, anxiety, depression and feeling overwhelmed. Physical reactions can include fatigue, nausea and vomiting, headaches, dizziness and aches and pains. Seek professional help if your level of distress is not reducing.
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Oct 2009
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Trauma and children - tips for parents
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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Parents or carers can do many things to help a child recover from distressing or frightening experiences. Time and support can help a child to cope with trauma. If you are concerned about a child, or feel that you aren't coping yourself, seek professional advice.
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May 2009
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Special assistance schemes
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Medicare Australia
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| Description: |
Information about the special assistance Medicare Australia provides for disasters
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| Date: |
Apr 2009
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| Title: |
Trauma and children
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Better Health Channel
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Children respond to a distressing or frightening experience in different ways, depending on a wide range of factors. The nature of their experience, previous experiences, their age and stage of development, and the impact of the experience on their parents or carers all affect a child's response to trauma.
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Mar 2009
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Dealing with a tragedy
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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When we hear about tragedies in which people are hurt or killed, we can experience many strong emotions, which can seem overwhelming.
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Mar 2009
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Workplace health - coping with a critical incident
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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A critical incident is any event or series of events that is sudden, overwhelming, threatening or protracted. This may be an assault, threats, severe injury, death, fire or a bomb threat. Critical Incident Stress Management aims to help workers deal with the normal emotional reactions that may result from involvement in or exposure to critical incidents in the workplace.
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Oct 2008
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Trauma and teenagers - tips for parents
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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Teenagers in your family who have experienced a traumatic event need both your support and your adult perspective. The way you help them to handle distressing and frightening events will influence their behaviour in future crises. A teenager's friends are also an important source of support.
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Jul 2008
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Trauma and teenagers - common reactions
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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A teenager will handle the experience of distressing or frightening events differently to young children or adults. In order to help them, parents or carers need to understand the ways in which a teenager manages distress and trauma.
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| Date: |
Jul 2008
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Trauma and families - tips
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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In families affected by distressing or frightening experiences, each person reacts in their own way. Understanding each other and some of the common reactions to look out for can help your family avoid communication breakdown and other problems. If you are concerned about family members, please seek professional help.
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| Date: |
Jul 2008
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| Title: |
Trauma and families
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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If your family is affected by a distressing or frightening experience, it is important to understand each other's experience of the event and reactions. This will help to avoid communication breakdowns and other problems. There are many strategies to reduce complications and support family recovery.
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| Date: |
Jul 2008
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Tragedy - coping afterwards
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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It can sometimes seem that every time you turn around there has been another tragedy - tragedies overseas, tragedies in your country, tragedies in your neighbourhood and even tragedies in your family.
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| Date: |
Jan 2008
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Tsunami
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Inspire Foundation
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| Description: |
A young person shares her story of how the tsunami affected her and her story.
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Jan 2005
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