Analysis on psychological stress of rescue officers and soldiers and its intervention during the “Oriental Star” wreck rescue mission
MA Jun
MENG Xianyong
LI Quanchao
Abstract：Objective To explore psychological stress response of rescue officers and soldiers and methods of psychological intervention in disaster rescue.Methods The “Oriental Star” wreck was retrospectively analyzed, and psychological stress of officers and soldiers during shipwreck rescue, psychological interventions carried out by psychological service personnel stationed in Hubei province and the effect were summarized.Results The main psychological stress of rescue officers and soldiers in preparatory phase was tension and anxiety, during the rescue process were acute stress response, excessive tension and exhaustion, after the rescue mission were psychological fatigue and psychological stress retardation reaction. Through psychological education before rescue and active intervention during rescue, no one of rescue officers and soldiers has withdrawed from the frontline because of psychological stress; by tracking intervention after rescue, nobody has serious psychological problems.Conclusions Psychological reaction of officers and soldiers in disaster rescue has its uniqueness. Psychological service personnel should carry out targeted psychological interventions according to the psychological stress reaction, and make psychological interventions throughout the rescue mission.
Keywords：“Oriental Star” wreckpsychological first aidpsychological stresspsychological intervention
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 369-371 )