Twenty years after the Ash Wednesday bushfires, with bushfires raging again in Victoria, I note that traumatology has come a long way. First, it has become an organised discipline. Next, disaster interventions have been well formulated in pamphlets and Emergency Management Australia manuals. Lastly, trauma conceptualisations have been evolving.
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Paul Valent
MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP
Consultant liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist, traumatologist,
Co-founder and past president Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
Writer.