Project outreach : crisis intervention following natural disaster.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1977Description: 9p., 4 refsSubject: This was a specially designed crisis intervention program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health following the devastating 1972 Agnes flood disaster in the Wyoming Valley of northeastern Pennsylvania. The project demonstrated that a cadre of local residents can be recruited, selected, and trained within a very short period of time to provide crisis intervention services to disaster victims. Project outreach has also shown that an active, community-based outreach/case finding effort can be a highly effective approach in dealing with the problems of disaster victims.
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Reprinted from Journal of Communication Psychology, Vol. 5., 1977, pp103-111
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This was a specially designed crisis intervention program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health following the devastating 1972 Agnes flood disaster in the Wyoming Valley of northeastern Pennsylvania. The project demonstrated that a cadre of local residents can be recruited, selected, and trained within a very short period of time to provide crisis intervention services to disaster victims. Project outreach has also shown that an active, community-based outreach/case finding effort can be a highly effective approach in dealing with the problems of disaster victims.
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