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Collective Trauma, Collective Healing Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster

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ISBN-10: 0415884179

ISBN-13: 9780415884174

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jack Saul

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Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health and other professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. The book lays out current guidelines and best practices for psychosocial responses to various types of catastrophes. At the same time it establishes a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community-based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing clinical services that are both contextually and culturally appropriate. Clinicians will come away from the book with a solid understanding of the new roles that health and mental health professionals play in disasters--roles that encourage them to…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English

List of Tables
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Collective Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery
Collective Trauma and Recovery: Global Perspectives
Families and Generations
The Second Generation
A Return to Poland
Refugees in New York City: From Clinic to Community
Torture Survivors in New York City
Tibetans in the Cafe
The International Trauma Studies Program
From the Clinic to the Stage
Promoting Family and Community Resilience in Post-War Kosovo
Resilience in the Kosovar Family
The Kosovo Family Professional Education Collaborative
Hosting Solution-Focused Conversations to Foster Resilience
A Mental Health System Based On Family and Community Resilience
From Global to Local: Urban Terrorism in Lower Manhattan
9/11: The First Three Weeks
September 11, 2001: The First Day
The First Week: Starting to Mobilize
A Toxic Environment and a New Reality
A Meeting of Professionals
The New York Experience
School and Community: Forging Collaboration
Organizing to Support Families
Communal Tensions Emerge
A Series of Community Forums
Preparing to Return to Ground Zero
Responding to Emerging Needs
The School Develops a Plan
What was Accomplished?
Promoting Collective Recovery
Shifting the Discourse
NYC Recovers: Strengthening the Mesosystem
Building Clinical and Community Capacity
The Downtown Community Resource Center
Challenges in Promoting Collective Resilience
Four Themes in Community Resilience and Recovery
Community Initiated Recovery Activities
Neighbor to Neighbor
Battery Drumline: The Healing Power of Samba
Supporting Journalists as First Responders
Artist Studio Tours: A Site for Reflection
Collective Narration and Performance
Stories From the Ground: Creating a Video Narrative Archive
Theater of Witness: Constructing Meaning After Tragedy
War and Migration-Little Liberia, Staten Island, NY
Little Liberia: Fostering Community Resilience
Engaging the Community
Background
Mapping Out Crucial Needs of the Community
Establishing a Drop-In Center
Unsupervised Youth Come to the Center
Consortium Building
Community Crisis
Further Developments at African Refuge
Summary
Seeking Truth and Justice
The TRC Comes to Staten Island
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Local Reconciliation on Park Hill
The Fate of the TRC
Checkpoints
The TRC Conference
Summary
References
Index