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Security & Disaster Management
Reviews “This is a unique book on a very important topic of post disaster psychosocial support, which is considered as an important pillar of disaster recovery. . . . This book provides, for the first time, in-depth analysis on the topic, which has both academic analysis as well as practical implications. This book can be considered as a good reference document for future policy formulation as well a research in the subject.” —Progress in Disaster Science, July 2019, review by Rajib Shaw (Editor-in-Chief) “Disaster Recovery is a landmark text for clinicians and practitioners involved in community-based psychosocial responses in domestic or international emergencies. Based on his many years of disaster experience, Joseph Diaz Prewitt eloquently explains the psychosocial impact of crisis events and emergencies and the need for interdisciplinary psychosocial interventions. He elaborates on the linkages between the territorial and the relational aspects, unfolding the concepts of loss of place and place attachment, and describes the impact of loss of place representing years of lived experiences. The options for a psychosocial transformation and reconstruction, provided communities are mobilized, are described in theory and in chapters on program implementation with case studies from around the world. Disaster Recovery will certainly inform, enlighten and inspire!” —Ea Suzanne Akasha, Technical Advisor, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support “Dr. Joe Prewitt’s book is a must read for students, practitioners, and academics in the humanitarian and development field. Covering the building blocks and current events, this is by far the most comprehensive book available on the topic of psychosocial support. Within minutes of reading the text, you will realize why it is hard to discuss psychosocial support without discussing the indelible contributions Dr. Joe has made in this area!” —Jono Anzalone, Vice President, International Services, American Red Cross “An outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the understanding and practice of international disaster psychology. Not only has he and the other contributors presented a sound framework for the necessity and benefits of community-based approaches, but they’ve also included several case examples to demonstrate how those approaches were implemented constructively in a variety of disaster settings. Of special appreciation from this reviewer’s point of view is the clarity and recognition given to several sociological concepts and related community intervention strategies. The authors’ explanation of the importance of a ‘sense of place’ and ways to restore that following a disaster especially bears noting. Both academics as well as practitioners are encouraged to read this book and develop research and program evaluation designs to focus on one or more of the community sociological intervention concepts and methods identified in this publication.” —Gordon R. Dodge, PhD, LP, Disaster Psychologist “The future will be better tomorrow.”—Singaporean slogan “The former American Psychological Association president Nick Cummings used to tell us of his World War Two paratrooper psychologist experiences. I tried to imagine him landing as a first responder, ready to unpack his Rorschach cards, there to do emergency first aid. It was an amusing image. After all, what can a psychologist do for victims of disasters in the chaos of their emergency? Quite a bit it turns out. The well-named ‘Dean of Clinical Hypnosis,’ David Cheek MD, taught us how to utilize his techniques for bringing disaster survivors out of shock and trauma, even to controlling peripheral blood flow. It was David who demonstrated how suggestible patients under general anesthetic can be helped or (even lethally) harmed by what is said in their unconscious presence by doctors and nurses. When in another decade an airplane leveled several streets of San Diego homes, we had much to do in providing psychosocial services to the traumatized survivors. So it would seem psychologists can have some genuinely helpful post-disaster emergency care roles, sparse as these insights were and even more rarely to be found in graduate education. And so it was as the 20th century ended. “The beginning of the 21st century saw an enhanced role for psychosocial intervention in the burgeoning field of trauma prevention and treatment. Following this were many texts, often helpful. My own 2012 Trauma Psychology in Context: International Vignettes was part of a move to incorporate trauma theory with in-context world-wide vignettes, ones useful as teaching tools for first responders. This included an evening seminar I later taught at the University of New Mexico, one for working students preparing for trauma treatment roles. Still, recent years have more specifically seen an accelerating incidence of global disasters, an important aftermath focus within trauma training. Whether its climate change disasters, war, or interpersonal mass violence, many more well-trained first responders with psychosocial skills are now necessary. To address this, what is required now is a text that demonstrates, chapter by chapter, contemporary examples of international disasters being effectively addressed in their aftermath by community-based psychosocial interventions. From crises in Southeast Asia to Puerto Rico, connecting our best theoretical models for disaster recovery to actual success, such a book would be essential for classes in the training of first responders, in and out of universities. Well, Dr. Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz has given us this book in 2018 with DISASTER RECOVERY: Community-Based Psychosocial Support in the Aftermath. Replete with the valuable contemporary experiences of his own and invited colleagues, this book belongs in every graduate school and professional training seminar where learning essential community-centered psychosocial disaster aftermath skills are the desired competency. Our human family needs this material. This book offers a future that tomorrow can be better.” —Robert F. Morgan, PhD, President, Morgan Foundation Publishers Now Available in Paperback CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editor: Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz, PhD CEO, Center for the Study of Psychosocial Support, Alexandria, Virginia Joseph O. Prewitt Díaz, PhD, is a practitioner scholar who has been doing field work and writing about psychosocial support in communities since 1998 in the Caribbean, the Americas, and South Asia, and has designed and implemented the a community-based psychological support program in South Asia that served 732,000 people and trained over 22,000 interventors. He has authored or co-authored eight books in Spanish and English on psychosocial support and over 40 referred journal articles. His work was recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) by being awarded the International Humanitarian Award in 2008 for assisting in the design and preparation of international guidelines and standards, rapid response, training of staff, program management and implementation, and monitoring of psychosocial support on behalf of the American Red Cross (ARC) in South Asia. He served as the ARC Global Technical Advisor for Psychosocial Support from 2005–2007. He is currently serving as a Psychosocial Technical Expert with the IFRC Psychosocial Support Reference Center in Copenhagen, Denmark and the IFRC Americas Region integrating psychosocial support into component the Zika epidemic response. His previous books include Advances in Disaster Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (2007) and Disaster Mental Health in India (2004). |
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