31 People Suffer Mental Trauma from Seohyeon Station Accident in Seongnam

Seongnam City Hall

It has been confirmed that 31 people received psychological trauma support services following the stabbing incident at Seohyeon Station in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do.

Seongnam City announced on the 22nd that after the Seohyeon Station incident on the 3rd, the Seongnam Mental Health Welfare Center switched to an emergency duty system from the 4th and operated it, and as a result of tallying the number of psychological counseling supporters and cases over 17 days until the 20th, a total of 84 disaster psychological support services were provided to 31 people.

Seongnam City added that these individuals repeatedly expressed anxiety and depression either face-to-face (1 case) or by phone (83 cases), with an average of 2 to 3 psychological support sessions per person, and up to 13 sessions for some.

By type, 23 people directly witnessed the incident and experienced trauma, while 8 people reported difficulties after indirectly hearing about the news.

Among them, 30 people were classified in the 'mild (level 3)' category out of the 7 levels of the Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S) scale, which assesses overall mental health and daily functioning, and received customized psychological emergency treatment.

However, the remaining one person was rated 'mild to moderate (level 4)' on the overall Clinical Global Impression scale and was referred to a medical institution for consultation with a psychiatrist.

Seongnam City will continue to provide disaster psychological support services even after the emergency duty system at the Mental Health Welfare Center, scheduled to end at the end of this month, concludes.

The Seongnam Mental Health Welfare Center opened in 1999 as the predecessor Seongnam Mental Health Center, with Yongin Psychiatric Hospital managing operations for 13 years.

Since 2012, Bundang Seoul National University Hospital has been entrusted with operations for 11 years. Currently, a total of 56 staff members are engaged in mental health counseling and promotion, operation of rehabilitation programs for people with mental illnesses, suicide prevention projects, and disaster psychological support projects.

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