Counseling for Healing of the Post-Fire Disaster Victims

Abstract

The purpose of this community service activity is to provide entertainment and psychological support so as to minimize the victims’ traumatic impact faced after the fire disaster. The counselling method from house to house was used in trauma healing for victims of the fire disaster at Pulau Bromo, Mantuil Sub-district. Trauma to victims after a fire causes post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with symptoms such as restlessness, fear, anxiety, feeling easily panicked, and having anxiety when seeing something relevant to fire. This type of activity is carried out in two stages. The type of activity is counselling and giving tips to control anxiety if there is a stimulus that appears, then after a few days, a visit is made to the house of the fire disaster victims. The result of this activity was that after counselling to the post-fire victims,  they have the ability to control themselves in case of unwanted stimuli occur.