ABSTRACT

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.

The book draws on experience working with survivors, their families, and communities in the Holocaust, postwar Kosovo, the Liberian civil wars, and post-9/11 lower Manhattan. It tracks the development of community programs and projects based on a family and community resilience approach, including those that enhance the collective capacities for narration and public conversation.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Collective Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery

part |36 pages

Collective Trauma and Recovery

chapter |9 pages

Families and Generations

chapter |11 pages

Refugees in New York City

From Clinic to Community

part |86 pages

From Global to Local

chapter |14 pages

9/11

The First Three Weeks

chapter |18 pages

School and Community

Forging Collaboration

chapter |18 pages

Promoting Collective Recovery

chapter |17 pages

Community Initiated Recovery Activities

chapter |17 pages

Collective Narration and Performance

part |41 pages

War and Migration—Little Liberia, Staten Island, NY

chapter |24 pages

Little Liberia

Fostering Community Resilience

chapter |15 pages

Seeking Truth and Justice