1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459464803321

Titolo

Managing trauma in the workplace : supporting workers and organizations / / edited by Noreen Tehrani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89610-4

1-136-89611-2

1-282-88587-1

9786612885877

0-203-84106-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TehraniNoreen

Disciplina

616.85/21

Soggetti

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Psychic trauma

Work environment

Organization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Part I: The nature of organisational trauma; Chapter 1: Child protection social work and secondary trauma; Chapter 2: Traumatic stress in the police service; Chapter 3: Mental health problems in British veterans; Chapter 4: Compassion fatigue and human resource professionals; Chapter 5: Critical incident stress and the prevention of psychological trauma in air traffic controllers; Chapter 6: The impact of disasters on schools and the school community

Chapter 7: The incidence of secondary traumatic stress in workers dealing with traumatizing materials, victims and perpetratorsPart II: Traumatized organisations and business continuity; Chapter 8: The impact of trauma within organisations; Chapter 9: Trauma-organised systems and parallel process; Chapter 10: The influence of organisational culture in dealing with workplace conflict: An ethical and cultural perspective; Chapter 11: Risk, business continuity and the



parts people play; Part III: Organisational interventions

Chapter 12: Supporting the police following the 7/7 London terrorist bombs - an organisational approachChapter 13: Models of crisis management; Chapter 14: Supporting employees at risk of developing secondary trauma and burn-out; Part IV: Building resilience and growth; Chapter 15: Sanctuary: An operating system for living organisations; Chapter 16: A resilience-building toolbox; Chapter 17: Growth in relationship: A post-medicalized vision for positive transformation; Chapter 18: One disaster after another: Building resilience in the trauma therapist and the role of supervision

Chapter 19: Building resilient organisations in a complex worldIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative outcomes from traumatic exposure it offers solutions which will not only build a more resilient workforce but also lead to individual and organisational growth and development. This book has contributions from international experts working in a variety of professions including teaching, the military, social work and human resources. It is split into four parts which explore:<



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697480603321

Titolo

In Situ Burning of Oil Spills Workshop proceedings : New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2-4, 1998 / / William D. Walton and Nora H. Jason, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 1999

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 114 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NIST special publication ; ; 935

Soggetti

Oil spills - United States

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 25, 2015).

"Sponsored by: U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service."

"February 1999."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814322303321

Autore

Octobre Sylvie

Titolo

Youth technoculture : from aesthetics to politics / / by Sylvie Octobre ; translated from French by Sarah-Louise Raillard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44753-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 206 pages)

Collana

Youth in a Globalizing World

Disciplina

004.6780835

Soggetti

Internet and youth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction From Mediaculture to Technoculture -- 1 After Mediacultures -- 2 Technocultural Mutations and Social Mutations -- 3 Going beyond Moral Panic -- 4 The New Barbarians -- Chapter 1 Culture in a Technological World: Major Fears Resurface -- 1 The Fear of Technocultural Mutations -- 1.1 Convergence, Mon Amour -- 1.2 Globalizing Hyperculture -- 1.3 From Works of Art to Cultural Contents -- 2 The End of Culture? -- 2.1 The Destructive Power of Technological Hegemony? -- 2.2 The Loss of the Tangible -- 2.3 Behind Technological Change, Cultural Shifts -- 3 The World of Machines -- 3.1 Computational Dynamics -- 3.2 The Past Predicts the Future -- or, Birds of a Feather Stick Together -- 3.3 The Cultural Promise of Big Data -- Chapter 2 The Cult of Participation -- 1 The Pro-am: A Form of Commitment in the Technocultural Regime -- 1.1 The Roots of The Pro-am: The Poacher -- 1.2 The Pro-am Revolution -- 2 Collective Intelligence and Community -- 2.1 What Is Collective Intelligence? -- 2.2 Collective Intelligence and Cultural Expertise -- 3 The Culture of Doing -- 3.1 Compensatory Skills -- 3.2 Creative Remixing -- 4 A New Ecology of Attention -- 4.1 In Search of Lost Attention Spans -- 4.2 In Praise of Free-Floating Attention and the Illusion of Multitasking -- 4.3 Hyper Attention: An Autopsy -- Chapter 3 The Impact of Youth Technoculture on Cultural Myths -- 1 Expressiveness -- 1.1 Expressive Individualism -- 1.2 The Rise of Experimentation -- 2 Emotions First



and Foremost -- 2.1 Peak Experiences -- 2.2 Presentification -- 3 Mobility as Value -- 3.1 The Call to Mobility -- 3.2 Aesthetico-cultural Cosmopolitanism -- 3.3 A New Criterion for Ranking -- 4 Additive Comprehension -- 4.1 Putting Together the Collaborative Transmedia Puzzle -- 4.2 The Reputation Filter.

Chapter 4 How Technoculture Shapes Youth Norms -- 1 Autonomy, an Ambiguous Standard -- 1.1 Cultural Consumption: The First Steps towards Autonomy -- 1.2 Private and Public Autonomy -- 1.3 The Framework of Cultural Autonomy and Its Inner Tensions -- 2 Norms of Engagement, Relation and Selection -- 2.1 The Importance of Choice -- 2.2 From Relationships to the Proximity Effect -- 2.3 What Engagement Signifies -- 3 The Vices and Virtues of Eclecticism -- 3.1 Revisiting Youth Omnivorism -- 3.2 The Challenge of Eclecticism -- Chapter 5 Technoculture, Education and Self-Education -- 1 Is Technoculture an Alternative Form of Education? -- 1.1 A "real-world" Education -- 1.2 The Return of Aesthetics -- 1.3 Modes of Learning and Affinity Spaces -- 2 The Challenge of Transliteracy -- 2.1 Literacy, Media Literacy and Digital Literacy -- 2.2 The Components of Transliteracy -- 2.3 A Weapon against Bullshit -- 3 Mediation and Remediation -- 3.1 A New Organizing Principle for Knowledge? -- 3.2 Self-Organization and Remediation -- Chapter 6 Technological and Cultural Fault Lines -- 1 Technocultural Fault Lines -- 1.1 The Access Divide -- 1.2 The Usage Divide -- 1.3 The Transferability Divide -- 1.4 The Reflexive Capacity Divide -- 2 A Universe Where Important Inequalities Persist -- 2.1 An Argument against "the tribalization of youth culture" -- 2.2 Factoring in Gender -- 2.3 Cumulative Inequalities? -- Chapter 7 The Political and Ethical Implications of Youth Technoculture -- 1 Technoculture Is (Inherently) Political -- 1.1 Becoming a Political Actor in the Era of Technoculture -- 1.2 Towards a Technocultural Public and Political Space -- 1.3 The Technocultural Regime Threatened by Rumors -- 1.4 Far from the Technocultural Crowd -- 2 Political Activism and Technoculture -- 2.1 Political and Cultural Media Activism -- 2.2 Political and Cultural Hacktivism.

3 Democracy and Technoculture -- 3.1 Democracy and Polyphonic Regimes of Truth -- 3.2 Knowledge Societies and Cognitive Bubbles -- 3.3 Neo-democracy or Democracy Threatened by Technoculture -- Conclusion Resisting the Appeal of Worst-Case Scenarios -- 1 A Twofold Movement of Creativity and Diversity -- 2 Reconfiguring Public Space -- 3 Rejecting Pessimism -- Bibliography -- Reports -- Books and articles -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Fake, mods, gaming, remix... these terms refer to modes of access, linked to digital convergence, but above all to capacities for action on cultural content, as well as on creative capacities, made possible thanks to ICTs. The media cultures of the audiovisual era are thus succeeded by the techno cultures of the digital era, in which the smartphone is becoming the first cultural terminal. These changes have a profound influence on the ways in which young people build their lives, but also on social ties. What do fansubbing and media activism have in common? What education do these changes require? These are some of the questions Youth Technoculture: From Aesthetics to Politics tries to answer"--