| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 of opportunity is realized, generating immediate help and sustained community development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Disaster relief.
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Disasters -- Social aspects
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Emergency management.
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Disasters.
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Disasters
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Relief Work
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Community Networks
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disasters.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Disasters
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Disaster relief
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Disasters -- Social aspects
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Emergency management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaufman, Roni
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| ISBN |
9780761856221 |
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0761856226 |
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