When their world falls apart : helping families and children manage the effects of disasters / Lawrence B. Rosenfeld ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, DC : NASW Press, c2005.Description: xi, 488 p. ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)ISBN:
  • 0871013584 (pbk.)
  • 9780871013583 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV553 .W48 2005
Contents:
I: Understanding disasters -- Introduction to disasters -- Models for considering the effects of disasters -- II: The effects of disasters -- Children and disasters: the child's reaction -- Family and community reactions to disasters -- Natural disasters -- Technological disasters -- Complex disasters -- III: Disaster intervention -- Preventive intervention -- Crisis intervention -- Postdisaster intervention -- Disaster recovery with vulnerable populations -- The community disaster plan -- Disasters and the media -- Helping the helpers.
Summary: Comprehensive and informative wealth of resourceful information for understanding disasters. A guide to understand the various dynamics of manmade, natural, and technological disasters; how these traumas affect those impacted; behavioral and cultural criteria to be considered; identifying and dealing with one's own issues, and more.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HV553 .W48 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98639434
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HV553 .W48 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. cd rom supplement 98639435

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Understanding disasters -- Introduction to disasters -- Models for considering the effects of disasters -- II: The effects of disasters -- Children and disasters: the child's reaction -- Family and community reactions to disasters -- Natural disasters -- Technological disasters -- Complex disasters -- III: Disaster intervention -- Preventive intervention -- Crisis intervention -- Postdisaster intervention -- Disaster recovery with vulnerable populations -- The community disaster plan -- Disasters and the media -- Helping the helpers.

Comprehensive and informative wealth of resourceful information for understanding disasters. A guide to understand the various dynamics of manmade, natural, and technological disasters; how these traumas affect those impacted; behavioral and cultural criteria to be considered; identifying and dealing with one's own issues, and more.

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Compatible with most Windows and Macintosh operating systems media players.

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