Theoretical and Intervention Considerations in Working with Victims of Disaster

Abstract

(from the book) looks at theoretical and intervention considerations in working with victims of disaster / when a disaster strikes, its impact affects both the individual and the community as a system and as such has widespread systematic effects at multiple sociocultural levels [explore] the theoretical considerations of trauma to the individual / [examine] the nature and dimensions of the traumatic experience, the importance of personal background factors, the influence of the interpersonal and social milieu postdisaster in the recovery environment, and factors affecting the processing of the trauma and long-term considerations in terms of mental health and social policy attempt to systematically explicate each of the various levels of necessary intervention postdisaster / specifies most of the major parameters that define the social, psychological, and cultural impact of a disaster (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).