Hurricane Andrew destroyed south Miami, Florida. Not only did it physically damage the Miami metropolitan area, but also psychologically. It affected hundreds of people, homes were lost and it left people unemployed. During recent years the psychological effect of this event became the focus of a study. This particular study revealed that Hurricane Andrew resulted in a number of serious psychiatric disorders on children and adults. This disaster demonstrated a variety of impacts like trauma-specific fears, fears of recurrence, anxiety, and intrusive recollection of the images and percent of the traumatic event. Not everyone witnessed this traumatic event as severely as others due to the fact that many were brushed by this disaster and others were prepared. This factor potentially played a role in the serious developments following this traumatic event. Post traumatic symptoms at 32 weeks were reduced compared to the time immediately after the hurricane, the level of symptomatology remained high. Its believed that the prevalence of post traumatic symptomatology at 32 weeks after the hurricane was mainly due to the secondary effects of the devastation toil by Hurricane Andrew and the "traumatic reminders" caused by damage in the community and intermittent storms. Ultimately, everyone felt this impact as one.
Hurricane Andrew changed Florida.
Mental health counselors were focused on seeking ways to assist the people of Florida. Many of them felt personally rewarded for the services they delivered. Others were discouraged because they were unable to find an effective way by which to deliver their assistance. Others still found there way to the American Red Cross and were able. Because of the very few trained professionals, not many got the chance to experience the support others had. The mental health services also experienced staffing issues as well as time-consuming issues in which they had to travel miles to reach these sites. In an effort to relieve this traumatic event from those targeted, some were left untreated.