An assessment of conflicting views on the consequences of community disasters for mental health.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1984Description: 49p., 200 refsReport number: DRC-PRELIMINARY-PAPER-89; Institutional/Corporate BodySubject: The author asks how well or how poorly do actual and potential victims respond to extreme stress situations? The answer has crucial implications for public policy in emergency planning and management, and tells us much about the basic nature of human beings and societies. The focus is on collective stress situations, and within that category, on disasters, and within that class, on those of a community nature. There are two approaches to the problem, the paper indicates the essence, one positive, one negative, and will suggest some of the reasons for the difference in opinions
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Conference Date 7 April 1979
Published as Preliminary Paper 62 by the Disaster Research Center in 1979
The author asks how well or how poorly do actual and potential victims respond to extreme stress situations? The answer has crucial implications for public policy in emergency planning and management, and tells us much about the basic nature of human beings and societies. The focus is on collective stress situations, and within that category, on disasters, and within that class, on those of a community nature. There are two approaches to the problem, the paper indicates the essence, one positive, one negative, and will suggest some of the reasons for the difference in opinions
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