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

ISBN-13: 9780415884167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str.

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Opis

This is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing clinical services that are both culturally and contextually appropriate.

Spis treści

Introduction: Collective Trauma, Resilience and Recovery  Part I: Collective Trauma and Recovery: Global Perspectives  1. Families and Generations  2. Refugees in New York City: From Clinic to Community  3. Promoting Family and Community Resilience in Post War Kosovo  Part II: From Global to Local: Urban Terrorism in Lower Manhattan  4. 9/11: The First Three Weeks  5. School and Community: Forging Collaboration  6. Promoting Collective Recovery  7. Community Initiated Recovery Activities  8. Collective Narration and Performance  Part III: War and Migration – Little Liberia, Staten Island, NY  9. Little Liberia: Fostering Community Resilience  10. Seeking Truth and Justice.

O autorze

Jack Saul, PhD, is the founding director of the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP), a research and training institute based in New York City. ITSP is committed to enhancing the natural resilience and coping capacities in individuals, families, and communities that have endured and/or are threatened by traumatic events. He has served on the faculties of New York University School of Medicine – Department of Psychiatry, the New School for Social Research, Clinical Psychology Program, and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. As a psychologist and family therapist, he has created a number of clinical and community-based programs in NYC and abroad for populations that have endured disaster, war, torture, and political violence. He consults with international organizations and has a private practice in Manhattan.