Cataclysms Crises and Catastrophes: Psychology in Action The Master Lectures
19872261926American Psychological Association 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Front wrapper faintly toned ink name. 1987 Trade Paperback. 235 pp. "Although by no means definitive the information that clinical practitioners community psychologists applied social psychologists health psychologists and others will find in these chapters will provide a broad view of current understandings of how catastrophic events affect individuals and groups and of how human beings adapt and can be helped to adapt to the resulting stresses. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the effects of disasters resulting from technological accidents as well as natural disasters crime and terrorism violence against women suicide and irrevocable losses resulting from death illness and other life events. The chapters in this volume illustrate why an interaction between theory and practice between a firm foundation in knowledge and basic human understanding is so vital. They also illustrate how psychologists help individuals under stress confront understand and grow beyond not only the ordinary stresses they must face each day but also the extraordinary stresses that today arise so often and so suddenly as a result of both natural disasters such as volcanoes floods and fires and human-made disasters such as toxic spills and acts of violence crime and terrorism"--Preface. American Psychological Association paperback books
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