The traumatic event that provides the context for this study was the 8.8 Richter scale earthquake which occurred on February 27th, 2010 in Chile. The earthquake, considered the 6th strongest in history, affected 630 linear kilometers of central Chile, inhabited by 12,800,000 people (three quarters of the total Chilean population).The earthquake, followed by a tsunami, damaged the homes of 2,000,000 people and left 521 dead and 56 unaccounted for (Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de and Chile., 2010 and Ministerio del Interior de Chile, 2010).