{"id":173142,"date":"2021-05-09T23:56:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/oneida-casino-shooting-survivors-need-psychological-first-aid-psychologist-says\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:46:30","slug":"oneida-casino-shooting-survivors-need-psychological-first-aid-psychologist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/oneida-casino-shooting-survivors-need-psychological-first-aid-psychologist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Oneida Casino Shooting Survivors Need Psychological First Aid, Psychologist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oneida Casino has reopened its Wisconsin complex following two recent fatal shootings there. But there could be a longer-term emotional impact on employees and others from the trauma, warns a UNLV psychologist.<\/p>\n

\"Psychological
Police officers and an ambulance shown at Oneida Casino complex after fatal shooting. Emotional healing will take some time. (Image: WISN<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this month, a former employee shot three people at a restaurant on the Oneida Nation casino complex before he was killed by police. Two of the people shot, Ian Simpson and Jacob Bartel, died from their injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Oneida complex, there very well may be an acute stress response that will look like an early kind of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially for those who were present during the shooting,\u201d UNLV’s Stephen Benning told Casino.org.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were counselors available to workers who are trying to cope with the May 1 incident at the tribal property. Oneida Nation Chairman Tehassi Hill told WLUK, a local TV station, that they are taking a balanced approach to employees and the wider community by taking care of physical, emotional, and spiritual health.<\/p>\n

Such a pre-emptive effort was praised by UNLV’s Benning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be most helpful for the Oneida casino operations to provide access to psychological first aid providers for their employees,\u201d Benning said.<\/p>\n

The shooter was an ex-employee who returned to his former workplace. By the time the incident was over, two workers were dead and a third person was seriously injured. The shooter was killed by police.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few days after a shooting like the one in Wisconsin, psychological first aid promotes contact and engagement with people so they don’t feel isolated, [and can] gather information and current needs and concerns, provide practical assistance to help employees know what to do, connect people with social supports in their lives, give information about typical reactions to traumatic stress, and link survivors with services they may need,\u201d Benning explained.<\/p>\n

Not One Size Fits All Healing Process<\/h2>\n

Such a healing approach should be provided in a \u201cmodular format\u201d to tailor \u201cthe intervention to what a particular employee needs at the time. It is not a blanket one-size-fits-all approach,\u201d Benning said.<\/p>\n

It does not require people who were at the scene to talk through what happened to them during the shooting, Stephen Benning adds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTo the extent that people have trouble processing the shooting, their acute stress might develop into posttraumatic stress disorder, in which they experience intrusive memories or sensations about the trauma, avoid reminders of the trauma, develop negative beliefs about themselves or negative moods, and have alterations in their levels of arousal and concentration,\u201d Benning said.<\/p>\n

Comparison With Mandalay Bay<\/h2>\n

Based on his study of the Oct. 1 2017 mass shooting at Mandalay Bay<\/a> on the Las Vegas Strip, only about half of the people who were present would be expected to have that level of posttraumatic stress a month and a half afterward. It declines to about one in five people experiencing that level of posttraumatic stress a year afterward, Benning said.<\/p>\n

Many were killed and several hundred injured in the Mandalay Bay shooting. There were tens of thousands of potential targets at the concert.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scale of the Mandalay Bay shooting was greater than that in Oneida\u2026. The safety of the broader community may have felt more at risk,\u201d Benning said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was also not an incident perpetrated by a former employee of Mandalay Bay, so it felt more senseless, and people still have no clear motive about why that shooting occurred to help them close the story of that incident,\u201d Benning added.<\/p>\n

He advises those showing some traumatic stress symptoms and who may feel \u201csubstantially distressed or impaired in their ability to function in their interpersonal or work lives\u201d to seek professional help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPsychological first aid may be most strongly indicated now,\u201d Benning said.<\/p>\n

He further recommends providing skills for psychological recovery. Especially for those \u201cwho feel like they need some help coping with the effects of the trauma.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat method will give them specific skills to promote problem-solving skills, engage in positive activities, manage their reactions, adopt helpful thought patterns, and rebuild healthy social connections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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