Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters
Joshua Miller
eISBN: 9780231519762
2012 (384 pages 9 figures; 9 tables)
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(pages 1-384)
Table of Contents
(pages 5-6)
List of Boxes, Figures, Tables, and Appendices
(pages 7-8)
Preface
(pages 9-20)
Acknowledgments
(pages 21-26)
1. The Social Ecology of Disasters
(pages 27-57)
2. Responding to Disasters: The Field of Disaster Mental Health and the Role of Helping Professionals
(pages 58-82)
3. Conceptualizing Disasters
(pages 83-110)
4. The Phenomenology of Disasters: The Impact on Individuals, Families, and Communities
(pages 111-138)
5. Sources of Resiliency
(pages 139-161)
6. Vulnerable Populations: Risk, Resiliency, and How to Help
(pages 162-178)
7. Discourses of Disaster Response and Recovery
(pages 179-215)
8. Psychosocial Capacity Building
(pages 216-245)
9. The Use of Groups and Activities
(pages 246-272)
10. Responding to Disasters Caused by Intergroup Conflict
(pages 273-308)
11. Collective Memorializing
(pages 309-325)
12. Disaster Distress and Self-Care
(pages 326-345)
Conclusion
(pages 346-352)
References
(pages 353-374)
Index
(pages 375-384)
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Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters
Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster’s aftermath. This requires helping survivors to rebuild their ability to meet their emotional and psychological needs, not only for themselves but also for others, which necessitates a careful consideration of survivors’ social, economic, and political realities as their communities heal and recover.
This comprehensive book integrates Western mental health approaches and international models of psychosocial capacity building within a social ecology framework, providing practitioners and volunteers with a blueprint for individual, family, group, and community interventions. Joshua L. Miller focuses on a range of disasters at local, regional, national, and international levels. Global case studies explore the social, psychological, economic, political, and cultural issues affecting various reactions to disaster and illustrate the importance of drawing on local cultural practices to promote empowerment and resiliency. Miller encourages developing people’s capacity to direct their own recovery, using a social ecology framework to conceptualize disasters and their consequences. He also considers sources of vulnerability and how to support individual, family, and community resiliency; adapt and implement traditional disaster mental health interventions in different contexts; use groups and activities to facilitate recovery as part of a larger strategy of psychosocial capacity building; and foster collective grieving and memorializing. Miller’s text examines the unique dynamics of intergroup conflict and the relationship between psychosocial healing, social justice, and peace and reconciliation. Each chapter ends with a mindfulness exercise, and a section reviews practitioner self-care.
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Table of Contents
Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters
Author(s):
Miller, Joshua
Keyword(s):
Joshua Miller, Psychosocial Capacity Buidling, Disaster Response, Social Work, Disaster Responders, Trauma
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