Research Catalog

Title

Crisis as an opportunity : organizational and community responses to disasters / edited by Roni Kaufman ... [et al.].

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Kaufman, Roni.

Description

xiii, 205 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Disaster relief
• Disasters > Social aspects
• Emergency management
• Disasters
• Community Networks
• Relief Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: pt. One Analytic Frameworks and Perspectives -- ch. One Community and Organizational Responses to Disasters / Brian W. Flynn -- ch. Two Interventions in Disasters: An International Perspective / Joanne S. Caye -- pt. Two Community Development and Organizational Interventions -- ch. Three Challenges for Community Development in Disaster Situations / Roni Kaufman -- ch. Four Program Logic Modeling as a Tool for Developing a Disaster Response and Mitigation Plan: The Somaliland Experience / Vivek Chemmancheri Kokkammadathil -- ch. Five Planning for the Unimaginable: Having Your Personal, Family, Organizational, and Community Plan / Howard S. Feinberg -- ch. Six Taking the Disabled into Account in Preparing for And Responding to Disasters / Patricia A. Findley -- ch. Seven Neighbors Helping Neighbors: The Disability Community and Emergency Preparedness / Jessica C. Jagger -- pt. Three Notes from the Field
• Note continued: ch. Eight Mud and Mold: Making Meaning of Adversity in New Orleans / Ronald E. Marks -- ch. Nine Words of Wisdom Following the Tsunami: Lessons from Sri Lanka / Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne -- ch. Ten Making the Voices of Victims Heard / Mihir R. Bhatt -- ch. Eleven The Human Hand Behind Natural Disasters: The Ugandan Experience / Benon Musinguzi -- pt. Four Psychosocial Interventions -- ch. Twelve Cultural Sensitivity in Psychosocial Interventions Following a Disaster: A Tri-national Collaboration in Sri Lanka / Dmitry Leykin -- ch. Thirteen Psychological Outcomes of the 2001 World Trade Center Attack / Mary Tramontin -- ch. Fourteen Social Work Students During Wartime: False Effect of Professional Self-efficacy? / Miriam Ben Oz -- ch. Fifteen Shared Traumatic Reality: Social Work Students and Clients in an Area Under Attack / Nehami Baum -- pt. Five Conclusion -- ch. Sixteen From Helping to Changing / Amos Avgar.

ISBN

• 9780761856214 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 0761856218

LCCN

^^2011931484

OCLC

742512235

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library