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Teachers to provide succour to victims

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PONDICHERRY, JAN. 10. The privately managed Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has trained a batch of 160 teachers from 38 schools here, for counselling and rehabilitation of children and their parents suffering from tsunami-related trauma. A release from the PIMS said here today that a disaster normally generates horror, unmanageable fear, phobia and other post-traumatic disorders. The department of Clinical Psychology of the Institute, headed by Dr. T. V. Mathew and Dr. Varadarajan, a clinical psychologist, had launched a special training programme for the teachers, selected by the authorities of the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan project here, for functioning as counsellors.

The teachers would visit the children's families, in addition to providing counselling in schools . The release said the hospital was prepared to train any number of professional counsellors as "help groups."

The director and principal of PIMS, Dr. Abraham G. Thomas, was coordinating the work along with a team of medical personnel of the institute.

The Institute's Department of Psychiatry had also been prepared to reach out to the needy with kits of medicines and with manpower, the release added.

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