Collective Trauma, Collective Healing Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster

Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing clinical services that are both culturally and contextually appropriate. Clinicians will come away from the book with a solid understanding of new roles that health and mental health professionals play in disasters - roles that encourage them to recognize and enhance the resilience and coping skills in families, organizations, and the community at large.