Finding Comfort During Hard Times - A Guide to Healing after Disaster, Violence, and Other Community Trauma

Booklist Starred Review - Finding Comfort is about providing emotional and spiritual care following a mass fatality incident like a mass shooting, terrorist act or catastrophic natural disaster. Through examples and practical suggestions, it explores the needs of those who are suffering and how those needs can be met.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Preparing for a Disaster: Where Comfort Begins

2 The First Day

3 The First Week

4 The First Month

5 The First Year and Beyond

6 Natural Disasters

7 Managing Comfort

8 Everyday Traumas

9 Families and Comfort

10 The Future of Comfort

Appendix: Comfort: My Pulse Nightclub Deployment Narrative

Index

About the Author

About the author

Earl Johnson was one of the founders of the Spiritual Care function in the American Red Cross. He helped develop the organization's Psychological First Aid curriculum and Coping with Deployment. Johnson worked on "Light Our Way" for the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster.

Product details

• Authors: Johnson Earl
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9798881806927
• ISBN: 979-8-8818-0692-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 231 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SELF-HELP / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Coping with death & bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss, Trauma & shock, Abnormal psychology