Collective trauma, collective healing : promoting community resilience in the aftermath of disaster
Jack Saul (Author)
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing 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. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes to the field and the world since the book's initial publication. The book draws on experience working with survivors, their families, and communities in the Holocaust, postwar Kosovo, the Liberian civil wars, and post-9/11 lower Manhattan. It tracks the development of community programs and projects based on a family and community resilience approach, including those that enhance the collective capacities for narration and public conversation. Clinicians and community practitioners will come away from Collective Trauma, Collective Healing with a solid understanding of new roles they may play in disasters--roles that encourage them to recognize and enhance the resilience and coping skills in families, organizations, and the community at large
1 online resource (217 pages).
9781136903908, 9780203842188, 9781136903915, 9781003231448, 9781000527889, 9781000527940, 1136903909, 0203842189, 1136903917, 1003231446, 1000527883, 1000527948
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: collective trauma, resilience and recovery
Collective trauma and recovery : global perspectives
Families and generations
Refugees in New York City : from clinic to community
Promoting family and community resilience in post war Kosovo
From global to local : urban terrorism in lower Manhattan
9/11 : the first three weeks
School and community : forging collaboration
Promoting collective recovery
Community initiated recovery activities
Collective narration and performance
War and migration : little Liberia, Staten Island, NY
Little Liberia : fostering community resilience
Seeking truth and justice
References
Index
Text in English