Promoting Community Resilience In Disasters

by Ronan, Kevin R.; Johnston, David Moore

• ISBN13: 9780387238203
• ISBN10: 0387238204
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

When large-scale disasters occur, they typically strike without warning'¬"regardless of whether the cause is natural, such as a tsunami or earthquake, or human-made, such as a terrorist attack. And immediately following a hazardous event or mass violence, two of the most vulnerable groups at risk are a community's children and their family members. Promoting Community Resilience in Disasters offers both clinicians and researchers guidance on hazard preparation efforts as well as early response and intervention practices. It emphasizes an evidence- and prevention-based approach that is geared toward readiness, response, and recovery phases of natural and human-made disasters, examining such key topics as:Establishing a community resilience frameworkReviewing current theory and researchUnderstanding the role for schools, youth, and familiesBuilding a partnership and multidisciplinary perspectiveRecognizing the importance of readiness and risk reductionProviding public education and response during a crisisDeveloping recovery programs that focus on physical and social factorsSetting evidence-based guidelines for practiceEstablishing an interface between research and practicePromoting Community Resilience in Disasters is specifically geared toward assisting those who work in school or community settings'¬"including school psychologists and counselors, emergency managers and planners, and all mental health professionals'¬"not only to increase resilience after a disaster, but to respond and intervene as quickly as possible when catastrophe strikes. It will assist those charged with the responsibility for helping others respond to and rebound from major traumas, especially clinicians and other professionals who work with children and their family members.

Author Biography

Kevin Ronan has been working in the hazards and disasters area for the past decade. He has an ongoing interest in community resilience and prevention work in this and other areas (e.g., conduct disorder and delinquency in youth and families). He has been the Director of Clinical Psychology Training at Massey University for a number of years and stresses evidence-based practice with trainees. In addition, the idea of accountability for producing outcomes is an emphasis in the training program and in his practice. He has published widely in the area of hazards and disasters. David Johnston has been employed with the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand since 1993 and his research is focused on reducing the vulnerability of society, economy and infrastructure to hazards. He has been involved in developing integrated risk management strategies for different hazard events, using techniques such as scenario development, mitigation planning and community education programs. He is also interested in assessing social and economic impacts of natural and environmental hazard events.

Table of Contents

Introduction to a Community Resilience Framework	1	(8)
Hazards Education as a Science and a Practice	3	(1)
Emergency Management and Community Resilience: Strengthening Multiple Systems	4	(3)
Putting the Evidence Together: Coherent Strategies for Helping	7	(1)
Summary	8	(1)
Community Resilience to Disasters: Introduction to Theory and Review of Research	9	(40)
Community Resilience to Disasters	10	(1)
Hazards Readiness through Recovery Research	11	(3)
Readiness and Risk Reduction	14	(2)
What Predicts Readiness?	16	(11)
Adjustment Adoption Research across Other Hazards: Highlighted Findings	27	(3)
What Are Obstacles to Preparedness?	30	(3)
Summary of Risk Reduction and Readiness Research	33	(2)
Response and Recovery: A Review of Findings	35	(14)
Community Resilience: The Role for Schools, Youth, and Families	49	(22)
The Potential of Hazards Education in the Short-Term	50	(5)
Response and Recovery	55	(4)
The Potential of Hazards Education in the Longer-Term	59	(1)
Targeting Response and Recovery through Readiness: The Strengthening Systems 4R Prevention Model	60	(11)
Community Resilience: A Partnership and Multidisciplinary Perspective	71	(18)
Multi-Organizational and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Disaster Management	71	(4)
Developing Capability	75	(1)
Need for a Multidisciplinary Effort and Community Partnerships	76	(4)
Joint Training in an All-Hazards Approach	80	(2)
Reducing the Risk from Lahars at Mount Rainier: A Case Study of a Community Partnership	82	(5)
Summary	87	(2)
Promoting Resilience: Readiness and Risk Reduction	89	(16)
The Influence of Risk Perception in Reduction and Readiness	92	(1)
Hazards Education Programs	93	(2)
Role of Schools	95	(4)
Emergency Planning	99	(5)
Summary	104	(1)
Promoting Resilience: Response	105	(12)
Public Education and Response during a Crisis	105	(2)
The Role for Schools	107	(2)
Warnings	109	(4)
Evacuation	113	(1)
Sheltering and Reunification	114	(2)
Summary	116	(1)
Promoting Resilience: Recovery	117	(36)
Recovery Programs: Focus on Physical and Social Factors	117	(2)
Multiple Gating and Stepped Care: A Resource Friendly Philosophy	119	(34)
Putting It All Together: Evidence Based Guidelines for Practice	153	(20)
Introduction: The Mindset	153	(1)
Readiness and Risk Reduction Practice: What to Do and How to Do It	154	(11)
Response and Recovery: The Primacy of Planning	165	(3)
Who Is Responsible: The Role of Leadership, Relationships, and Accountability	168	(5)
The Research-Practice Interface and Recommendations	173	(10)
Methodologies with an Emphasis on Practical Program Evaluation	174	(4)
Future Research Needs	178	(2)
Research-Practice Interface: A Comment on Training Programs and Resources	180	(3)
Appendix 1 Planning for a Crisis in a School: Checklist of Actions	183	(4)
Appendix 2 Web Resources	187	(2)
References	189	(14)
Index	203