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Response to Disaster: Psychological, Community, and Ecological Approaches »

Authors: Richard Gist, Bernard Lubin
ISBN-13: 9780876309988, ISBN-10: 0876309988
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Richard Gist

Book Synopsis

Psychological service in the wake of cataclysmic life events has emerged as a prominent and visible component of social response. This has generated a bandwagon of potential service providers, service approaches, and service venues. Where once help was scarce, it has become plentiful enough to engender its own set of conflicts and contradictions along with its intended solace and aid. Response to Disaster reconciles the technical, theoretical, and applied interests represented in these various populations and provides a contemporary treatment that can help define the directions of their increasing interaction.

	Contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Psychosocial, Ecological, and Community Perspectives on Disaster Response	1
Ch. 2	The Experience of Disaster: Individuals and Communities Sharing Trauma	25
Ch. 3	The Short- and Long-Term Psychological Impact of Disasters: Implications for Mental Health Interventions and Policy	63
Ch. 4	Assessing the Impact of Trauma in Work-Related Populations: Occupational and Cultural Determinants of Traumatic Reactivity	83
Ch. 5	A Critical Look at PTSD: Constructs, Concepts, Epidemiology, and Implications	101
Ch. 6	The Help-Seeking Process for Distress after Disasters	133
Ch. 7	Coping with Disastrous Events: An Empowerment Model of Community Healing	167
Ch. 8	Children's Responses to Disaster: Family and Systems Approaches	193
Ch. 9	There Are No Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: The Rise and Fall of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing as a Response to Occupational Stress in the Fire Service	211
Ch. 10	Ethical Issues in Working with Communities in Crisis	241
Ch. 11	"And then you do the Hokey-Pokey and you turn yourself around ..."	269
Ch. 12	Pseudoscience and the Commercial Promotion of Trauma Treatments	291
Ch. 13	In the Public Arena: Disaster as a Socially Constructed Problem	327
	Epilogue	347
	Index	353