Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma: Foundations, Issues, and Applications

Book Overview

In this pioneering volume, experts in individual and collective trauma experience, post-traumatic stress and related syndromes, and emergency and crisis intervention share their knowledge and insights into working with ethnic and racial minority communities during disasters. In each chapter, emotional, psychological, and social needs as well as communal strengths and coping skills that arise in disasters are documented.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387732845
• ISBN13: 9780387732848
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"