School-Based Multisystemic Interventions for Mass Trauma

✍ Scribed by Avigdor Klingman, Esther Cohen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

School-Based Multisystemic Interventions for Mass Trauma presents the theoretical foundations of school-based crisis intervention, which is a systemic approach to helping the school system in an emergency.
The book offers a theory- and research-based framework to address the numerous and varied needs of student, parents, educational staff, school administration, and the mental health professionals themselves. The sections include the following: A systematic review of the theory and findings relevant to mass disasters, their impact on children, and postdisaster stress processing and positive coping; A conceptual basis for schoolwide preventive interventions; and, A comprehensive multisystemic intervention plan involving school children, school personnel, and community agencies. School-Based Multisystemic Interventions for Mass Trauma is a valuable resource for school psychologists, school mental health workers, clinical child psychologists, school counsellors, as well as for educators and school administrators.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Events Triggering This Book....Pages 5-10
Our Preliminary Assumptions....Pages 11-16
Impact of Context, Personal Factors, and Recovery Environment on Psychological Responses to Disaster....Pages 19-34
Two Extreme Contexts for Disaster: Terrorist Attack and Unconventional Weapon Use....Pages 35-41
From Normative Postdisaster Stress Response to Full-Fledged Disorder....Pages 45-52
Bereavement in the Wake of Traumatic Death....Pages 53-59
The Effects of Traumatic Events on the Family, the Parent-Child Relationship, and the Parent-School Partnership....Pages 61-73
Coping, Habituation, Resilience, and Trauma-Induced Growth....Pages 75-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Generic Intervention Approach and Principles....Pages 87-91
Developmental, Functional, and Cultural Considerations....Pages 93-98
School-Based 7-Level Preventive Intervention Model....Pages 101-138
Active, Positive, and Expressive Activities That Foster Students’ Adaptive Coping and Processing....Pages 139-149
School-Based Preventive Interventions with Parents Around Mass Trauma....Pages 151-174
Assessment and Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders in Children: A Tertiary Prevention Perspective....Pages 175-198
Back Matter....Pages 203-220

✦ Subjects

Social Work; Child and School Psychology