Jaslok Hospital sets up trauma counselling cell

Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre has set up a trauma counselling cell (TCC) to provide psychological services to terror struck victims and their families, so that they can deal with the trauma in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.
Heading the TCC, Dr. Maya Kirpalani says, “Special intervention is recommended for those involved in terrorist combat i.e. army, police and fire brigade personnel, for hotel staff, who have been involved in this physical and emotional violence as well as to the citizens, who have witnessed all this violence by living near the affected areas or watching it on their television sets.
In this centre, we will focus on providing trauma counselling, psychiatric treatment, social support, group counselling and psycho spiritual interventions to heal the trauma, teaching resiliency techniques and hold peace workshops.”
Jaslok Hospital has invited internationally recognised experts like Dr. Rony Berger and Dr. Marc Gelkopf from Israel,
specialists in dealing with psychological preparation for and aftermath of terrorism and other major disasters. They will conduct training workshops.