Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1    The Connection Between Grief and Trauma: An Overview

Mary Beth Williams, Ellen S. Zinner, and Richard R. Ellis

The Context of Tragedy

Key Definitions

What is a Community?

Models of Bereavement and Grief

PTSD and Traumatic Events

Healing Within a Community

Conclusions

References

PART ONE     HUMANMADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS

Chapter 2        The Challenger Disaster: Group Survivorship on a National Landscape

Ellen S. Zinner

The Shuttle Challenger: Mission 51-L

Group Survivorship and the Loss of Challenger

Personal Word and Summary

References

CHAPTER 3    The Estonia Disaster: National Interventions, Outcomes, and Personal Impacts

Lasse Nurmi

The Disaster of September 28, 1994

Immediate Responses to the Disaster

Memorials, Investigations, and Conclusions

Conclusions and Impact

References

CHAPTER 4    The Kempsey Bus Disaster: The Effects on Australian Community Rescuers

Rod Watts and Marise Wilson

The Kempsey Bus Disaster

Reflecting on a Group Crisis

References

CHAPTER 5    Coping Through Meaning: The Community Response to the Earthquake in Armenia

Anie Sanentz Kalayjian

The Day the Land Moved: December 7, 1988

The Republic of Armenia

Disaster Theory and Response

Psychosocial Response of the Armenian Community

Conclusion

References

CHAPTER 6    The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Adapted Strategies for Survival

Mary Beth Williams, G. Robert Baker, and Tom Williams

The Disaster Strikes

Mental Health Needs

Dealing With Death: Interruption of Normal Rituals

Community Outcomes

A Personal Response to Kobe

Conclusions

References

PART TWO    THE LOSS OF LEADERS AND HEROES

CHAPTER 7    Death of a Leader: The Social Construction of Bereavement

Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson

Background: Before the Assassination

The Assassination

Bereavement: The Stages Model

Following the Assassination

Stages of Individual and Social Grief: A Comparison

Creation and Construction of Rituals

Sociopsychological Perspective: Collective Grief in Israeli Society

The “Wounded Observers”: A Personal Account

Concluding Remarks and Implications

References

CHAPTER 8    The Death and Rebirth of a Hero: Mickey Mantle’s Legacy

Lynda Harrell

An American Hero

The American Dream

The Diagnosis

Reality and the Dream

Redemption

The Transplant

The System

Education

The Double Bind

Giving Something Back

The Wrap Up

“Be a Hero”

Creating Good from Grief

Conclusion

References

PART THREE  TERRORISM AND POLITICAL ACTION

CHAPTER 9    The Terrorist Bombing in Oklahoma City

Karen A. Sitterle and Robin H. Gurwitch

Risk Factors in Posttrauma Responses

The Victim and Survivor Groups in Oklahoma City

Interventions with Survivor Groups

Rituals for Survivors and Families of the Deceased

The 1-Year Anniversary

Reflections and Conclusions

Synopsis

References

CHAPTER 10  The Threat to Belonging in Enniskillen: Reflections on the Remembrance Day Bombing

David Bolton

The Essential Attributes of a Community

The Implications of the Remembrance Day Bombing: How the Community Responded

Providing Support and Responding to a Community Disaster

Final Remarks

References

CHAPTER 11  The Significance of Unforeseen Death in a Community on the Brink

Amia Lieblich

The Body, the Sustenance, and the Home: Central Development Processes

Coming to Terms with Trauma: Mali’s Death at Gilgal

References

SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER 12  Summary and Incorporation: A Reference Frame for Community Recovery and Restoration

Ellen S. Zinner and Mary Beth Williams

Pretrauma Period

Trauma Period

Primary Intervention Period

Secondary Adjustment Period

Posttrauma Period

Index

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