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Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder
- Author:
- GORMAN Jane
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
In recent years, mental health professionals have adopted the term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to describe a range of psychological symptoms people may experience following a traumatic event, which is outside the normal human experience. The World Health Organisation has defined it as: ‘A delayed or protracted response to a stressful event or situation (either short or long-lasting) of an exceptionally threatening or long-lasting nature, which is likely to cause pervasive distress in almost anyone.’
Crisis, trauma, and challenge: a relational resilience approach for healing, transformation, and growth
- Author:
- WALSH Froma
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 74(1), 2003, pp.49-71.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describe and illustrates the strengths-oriented approach for healing, transformation, and growth out of crisis, trauma, and loss, with a focus on belief systems that foster resilience through meaning-making, a positive outlook, and transcendence/spirituality.
Two shadows of the twin towers: missing safe spaces and foreclosed opportunities
- Authors:
- KRAUSS Beatrice J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 84(4), October 2003, pp.523-529.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
War and disaster often strike impoverished and stressed communities. The Lower East Side of New York City (LES) became one of those communities on September 11, 2001, when youth and parents experienced the destruction of the nearby World Trade Center. HIV-affected and HIV-infected parents discussed their own and their families' reactions. LES parents felt they had dealt with the initial effects of the World Trade Center disaster well, but were concerned about their ability to deal with continued threat. This challenge was made more difficult as they saw the number and quality of safe places from which to view and interpret events diminish, and their opportunities to establish reserves that would help them cope erode. HIV posed additional difficulties post-disaster. Implications are drawn for emergency preparedness planning for urban families.
'Whatever you say, say nothing'. Youth for youth, reflections on a 2-year youth participation project
- Author:
- BRYSON Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 9(3), July 2003, pp.217-227.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
From January 2000 to December 2002 Save the Children worked in partnership with a group of young people, concerning their experience of the conflict and their invisibility within the new political context in Northern Ireland. Considers the learning realised through this partnership with children and young people, reflecting first on the difficulties in working directly with the issues of experience and identity within the context of ongoing conflict, second on the expectations of young people and organisations working for change within this problematic and sensitive context and finally on the barriers young people experience working for change within a fluctuating political environment.
Its a mindfield
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 32, 26.3.03, 2003, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the diagnosis of dissociative disorder.
The representation of madness in some Australian films
- Authors:
- GILLARD Garry, ACHIMOVIC Lois
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Critical Psychology Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3(1), Spring 2003, pp.9-19.
This article considers representations of characters with mental illness in four Australian films, with a particular focus on suggested causes. In the films discussed, environmental influences viewed as a strong influence of the characters' psychiatric presentations. Attention is drawn to the growing body of evidence that trauma can precipitate ma
Coming home to self: the adopted child grows up
- Author:
- VERRIER Nancy Newton
- Publisher:
- Gateway Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 485p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
This book explores the role of trauma in adopted people's lives, beliefs, the impact of relationships and reunions, and uncovering the authentic self. It is directed at all members of the adoption triad.
Critical incident debriefing and social work: expanding the frame
- Author:
- MILLER Joshua
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 30(2), 2003, pp.7-25.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A debriefing is a structured group process that responds to the cognitive, emotional, physical and social reactions resulting from disasters and other traumatic events. This article describes debriefings and reviews research critically examining their effectiveness. The author proposes ways that social workers can contribute to theoretical frameworks, expand debriefing models, contribute to skill development and advance debriefing research and scholarship. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
New York state of mind
- Author:
- GILLEN Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.9.03, 2003, pp.26-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author speaks to social workers about their work after the September 11th attack on the World Trade Centre.
Lest we forget
- Author:
- WEAVER Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.5.03, 2003, p.35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the continuing need for support from the West to help social project in Bosnia.