Personal reactions to natural disasters.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: MAY 1976Description: 31p., no refs, 3 appendicesReport number: Institutional/Corporate BodySubject: The author has tried to convey feelings or emotions felt in her family, and friends. The basic behaviour patterns that emerged were shock, apathy, psychosomatic reactions, anxiety and panic. Exhaustion, depression and grief were common later. In Darwin, after Cyclone Tracy, it is noted that the crisis was approached as essentially a physical crisis by authorities and public alike, with only belated recognition that there were social overtones. Australia's greatest peace time emotional crisis had passed by without even preliminary recognition that it was an emotional and social, as well as physical crisis
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 302.54 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005285962 |
Symposium Dates 26-29 May 1976
The author has tried to convey feelings or emotions felt in her family, and friends. The basic behaviour patterns that emerged were shock, apathy, psychosomatic reactions, anxiety and panic. Exhaustion, depression and grief were common later. In Darwin, after Cyclone Tracy, it is noted that the crisis was approached as essentially a physical crisis by authorities and public alike, with only belated recognition that there were social overtones. Australia's greatest peace time emotional crisis had passed by without even preliminary recognition that it was an emotional and social, as well as physical crisis
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