Crisis as an opportunity : organizational and community responses to disasters / / edited by Roni Kaufman [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.3480973
• Soggetto topico: Disaster relief; Disasters - Social aspects; Emergency management
• Altri autori: KaufmanRoni
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Incluides bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 PlanChapter 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 ExperiencePart 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crisis as an opportunity
• ISBN: 0-7618-5622-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812489903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II