Psychological reconstruction is ongoing process: Exploring the aboriginal people reactions to the traumatic psychological experiences after the Eighth August floods
| Autor: | Wei-Chen Chang, 張維真 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 Purpose: Past psychological studies mostly focused on effects of disasters in the victims suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome （Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD） or other causes of mental illness. Psychological reconstruction program based on psychopathology is intervened in order to reduce ‘symptoms’ but ignore "resilience". Recent view on victims of post-disaster psychological process is not based on PTSD and mental illness which is related knowledge of diagnosis, another approach to address post traumatic growth is emphasized. There are different psychological reactions to different natural disasters for the survivors, it is important to construct unique program in local context than universal principle. Disaster psychology studies in Taiwan aimed at indigenous ethnic groups are still few; this study adopted phenomenological psychological methods on Typhoon Morakot（also known as 88 Typhoon）to understand the survivors’ psychological experiences is conducted. Methods: Purposive sampling from Tai-Tung County heavily affected by Typhoon Morakot is used to recruit the participants. Finally, six participants (2 males and 4 females) from three different tribes are interviewed once at least for 1.5 hour. The data analysis procedures are based on phenomenological psychology. Results: The results revealed that situated structures for the six participants are as following. During the disaster happening interval, natural disaster appeared as the visage of the “Other” invaded the villages. Victims suffered from disaster with “other” villagers and transferred the situated position by the calling of "other" visage. In the post-traumatic experience daily life, victims disclose four experiential structures in general. First, through rebuilding houses or returning to living order, victims bring out the depth feeling of “Building, dwelling, Thinking”. Second, victims tried to take ethical action to transform suffering. Third, “temporality” horizon is expanded from hard time to the post-traumatic growth meaning. Fourth, the victims gain the comprehensive understanding about the encountering crisis through the tradition wisdom. Conclusions: This study is found unique meanings of traumatic psychological experiences of aboriginal people. For them, the disaster is not only a crisis but an opportunity for recalling the tradition culture. Tradition diaspora cultures make aboriginal victims to view disaster as a part of ordinary life, and help them to adjust themselves through recovery. In addition, this study is implied the alternative understandings of posttraumatic psychological program to aboriginal people for the helpers. |
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