Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction: Focusing on the Community in the Case of Extreme Stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-10

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   2. The Community Context of Disaster and Traumatic Stress: An Ecological Perspective from Community Psychology

      • Edison J. Trickett

      Pages 11-25

3. Basic Stress Concepts and Where They Lead in the Study of Community Stress (Overview)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-31

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   2. Disasters, Stress and Cognition

      • Donald Meichenbaum

      Pages 33-61

   3. Temperament Risk Factor: The Contribution of Temperament to the Consequences of the State of Stress

      • Jan Strelau

      Pages 63-81

   4. Coping with the Loss of a Family Member: Implications for Community-Level Research and Intervention

      • Camille B. Wortman, Katherine B. Carnelley, Darrin R. Lehman, Christopher G. Davis, Julie Juola Exline

      Pages 83-103

   5. Individual and Community Stress: Integration of Approaches at Different Levels

      • Matthias Jerusalem, Krzysztof Kaniasty, Darrin R. Lehman, Christian Ritter, Gordon J. Turnbull

      Pages 105-129

4. Resources to Offset Stress: Applications to the Community Context (Overview)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-135

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   2. Community Stress and Resources: Actions and Reactions

      • Stevan E. Hobfoll, Sylvester Briggs, Jennifer Wells

      Pages 137-158

   3. Optimistic Self-Beliefs as a Resource Factor in Coping with Stress

      • Ralf Schwarzer, Matthias Jerusalem

      Pages 159-177

   4. Stress and Social Support

      • Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce

      Pages 179-197

5. Bridges to Community Stress (Overview)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-206

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   2. Prevention of the Consequences of Man-Made or Natural Disaster at the (Inter)National, the Community, the Family and the Individual Level

      • Joop T. V. M. de Jong

      Pages 207-227

   3. The Pathogenic Effects of War Stress: The Israeli Experience

      • Zahava Solomon

      Pages 229-246

   4. Stress and Disaster

      • Alexander C. McFarlane

      Pages 247-265

   5. Methodological Issues in Designing Research on Community-Wide Disasters with Special Reference to Chernobyl

      • Evelyn J. Bromet

      Pages 267-282

   6. Research Methods and Directions: Establishing the Community Context

      • Fran H. Norris, John R. Freedy, Anita DeLongis, Lucio Sibilia, Wolfgang Schönpflug

      Pages 283-299

6. Long-Term Effects of Community Stress (Overview)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-306

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   2. Long-Term Consequences of Disasters

      • Bonnie L. Green

      Pages 307-324

Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention is the first volume to address traumatic stress from a community perspective. The authors, drawn from among the world's leaders in psychology, psychiatry and anthropology, examine how extreme stress, such as war, disasters and political upheaval, interact in their effects on individuals, families and communities. The book is rich in both theoretical insight and practical experience. It informs readers about how to adopt a community perspective and how to apply this perspective to policy, research and intervention.

• Design
• Familie
• Holocaust
• Integration
• Nation
• anthropology
• cognition
• psychiatry
• psychology

• Applied Psychology Center, Kent State University, Kent, USA

  Stevan E. Hobfoll

• Department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, Section of Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, University of Limburg and the International Institute for Psycho-social and Socio-ecological Research (IPSER), Maastricht, The Netherlands

  Marten W. Vries

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