Crisis as an opportunity : organizational and community responses to disasters

Crisis as an opportunity : organizational and community responses to disasters / edited by Roni Kaufman, Richard L. Edwards, Julia Mirsky, Amos Avgar.

This book addresses the development of long-term interventions following disasters, emphasizing disadvantaged communities. Attention is given to the role of change agents, such as local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and psychosocial professionals, to ensure that the window...

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Other Authors: Kaufman, Roni
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2011.
Subjects:
Disaster relief.
Disasters > Social aspects.
Emergency management.
Disasters.
disasters.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Disasters
Disaster relief
Disasters > Social aspects
Emergency management
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Table of Contents:
  • Crisis as an Opportunity
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Analytic Frameworks and Perspectives
  • Chapter One Community and Organizational Responses to Disasters
  • Chapter Two Interventions in Disasters: An International Perspective
  • Part Two: Community Development and Organizational Interventions
  • Chapter Three Challenges for Community Development in Disaster Situations
  • Chapter Four Program Logic Modeling as a Tool for Developing a Disaster Response and Mitigation Plan: The Somaliland Experience
  • Chapter Five Planning for the Unimaginable: Having Your Personal, Family, Organizational, and Community Plan
  • Chapter Six Taking the Disabled into Account in Preparing for And Responding to Disasters
  • Chapter Seven Neighbors Helping Neighbors: The Disability Community and Emergency Preparedness
  • Part Three: Notes from the Field
  • Chapter Eight Mud and Mold: Making Meaning of Adversity in New Orleans
  • Chapter Nine Words of Wisdom Following the Tsunami: Lessons from Sri Lanka
  • Chapter Ten Making the Voices of Victims Heard
  • Chapter Eleven The Human Hand Behind Natural Disasters: The Ugandan Experience
  • Part Four: Psychosocial Interventions
  • Chapter Twelve Cultural Sensitivity in Psychosocial Interventions Following a Disaster: A Tri-national Collaboration in Sri Lanka
  • Chapter Thirteen Psychological Outcomes of the 2001 World Trade Center Attack
  • Chapter Fourteen Social Work Students During Wartime: False Effect of Professional Self-efficacy?
  • Chapter Fifteen Shared Traumatic Reality: Social Work Students and Clients in an Area Under Attack
  • Part Five: Conclusion
  • Chapter Sixteen From Helping to Changing
  • Editors
  • Contributors.

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