ke occurred

in 1976," she sai▓d.In November 2008, t

ionals to many badly affected areas to provide treatment and training."Foreign ▓experts who provided experience of post-trauma assistance were very helpful, but we discovered that ▓some

he AIDS prev

• ention pro▓ject arranged for 34 teachers from Sichuan to visit
• Beijing and spend two weeks attending ps▓ychology classes and lec
• tures delivered by experts. I▓n the following three years
• , the project was extended, with the result

that many of the

• teachers became lic
• ensed psy▓chologists.

"The Wenchuan earthquake is a

• milestone in post-traumatic psychological support in China. In the past, people were reluctant to visit psychologists,▓ even during a crisis, because they felt ashamed to be labeled as having a 'mental illness'," sa

• id Liu Zhengkui, a researcher with the Institute of Ps▓ychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.According to Li▓u, before the Wenchuan quake, no psychologists▓ in China specialized in post-traumatic assistance, so the inadequate cou

nseling provided by untr