Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention

Chapter 1 The Community Context of Disaster and Traumatic Stress: An Ecological Perspective from Community Psychology

Chapter 2 Disasters, Stress and Cognition

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

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

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

Chapter 6 Community Stress and Resources: Actions and Reactions

Chapter 7 Optimistic Self-Beliefs as a Resource Factor in Coping with Stress

Chapter 8 Stress and Social Support

Chapter 9 Prevention of the Consequences of Man-Made or Natural Disaster at the (Inter)National, the Community, the Family and the Individual Level

Chapter 10 The Pathogenic Effects of War Stress: The Israeli Experience

Chapter 11 Stress and Disaster

Chapter 12 Methodological Issues in Designing Research on Community-Wide Disasters with Special Reference to Chernobyl

Chapter 13 Research Methods and Directions: Establishing the Community Context

Chapter 14 Long-Term Consequences of Disasters

Chapter 15 Endurance and Living: Long-Term Effects of the Holocaust

Chapter 16 Reverberation Theory: Stress and Racism in Hierarchically Structured Communities

Chapter 17 Culture, Community and Catastrophe: Issues in Understanding Communities Under Difficult Conditions

Chapter 18 Preventive Psychosocial Intervention After Disaster

Chapter 19 The Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Chapter 20 Strategies of Disaster Intervention for Children and Adolescents

Chapter 21 Catalyzing Community Support

Chapter 22 Prevention and Treatment of Community Stress: How to be a Mental Health Expert at the Time of Disaster

Chapter 23 Intervention Strategies for Emergency Response Groups: A New Conceptual Framework

Chapter 24 Conclusions: Addressing Communities Under Extreme Stress