Gleser / Green / Winget Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster

A Study of Buffalo Creek
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6570-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Web PDF

Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: A Study of Buffalo Creek disseminates the findings of an investigation into the psychosocial effects of a specific disaster - the collapse of a slag dam that inundated the valley of Buffalo Creek in West Virginia on February 26, 1972. Based on interviews with more than 600 men, women, and children for whom psychic impairment was claimed, this volume examines the relationships between the individual disaster experiences of the survivors and their later psychological functioning. Comprised of nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the psychosocial consequences of disasters and an account of the Buffalo Creek disaster itself, along with the subsequent lawsuit against the coal company. The next chapter explains how the psychopathology and stress of the survivors were scaled and gives some information regarding the reliability and validity of the data. Symptoms, sleep problems, family disruption, and traumatic dreams are considered. The findings on these data and the follow-up studies are discussed. The final chapter contains a summary of the findings and proposes specific suggestions as well as a model for future disaster studies. This book will be of most practical importance to mental health scientists and clinicians working with the victims of stress and disaster, and should also be of considerable interest to social and behavioral scientists and, more generally, to administrators of government activities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gleser, Goldine C.

Green, Bonnie L.

Winget, Carolyn

Lykken, David T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover
;1
2;Prolonged Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: A Study of Buffalo Creek;4
3;Copyright Page
;3
4;Table of Contents
;7
5;Preface;9
6;Chapter 1. Introduction
;12
7;Chapter 2. Two Differing Points of View
;24
8;Chapter 3. The Buffalo Creek Litigants
;32
9;Chapter 4. Scaling Psychopathology and Stress
;38
9.1;Self-Report Measures;39
9.2;Clinical Impairment Rating;42
9.3;Quantifying Interview Data;42
9.4;Validation of Interview Quantification;45
9.5;Scaling Stress;53
9.6;Summary;60
10;Chapter 5. Examining the Evidence of Psychopathology
;62
10.1;Sampling, Malingering, or Effect of the Disaster?;63
10.2;Amount of Psychopathology;66
10.3;Comparison with Normative Data;71
10.4;Comparisons with Psychiatric Outpatients;72
10.5;Further Psychosocial Disruption;75
10.6;Comparisons with Other Disasters;75
10.7;Psychophysiological Dysfunction;78
11;Chapter 6. Sleep and Dreams
;84
11.1;Sleep Disturbances;84
11.2;Dreams;90
12;Chapter 7. Stress, Coping, and Psychopathology
;100
12.1;Relationship between Stress and Psychopathoiogy;102
12.2;Demographic Variables;109
12.3;Life Stresses Subsequent to the Flood;118
12.4;Relative and Total Impact of Predictor Variables;120
12.5;Relationships among Psychopathoiogy in Family Members;123
12.6;Summary;130
13;Chapter 8. After the Settlement, What Then?
;132
13.1;Description of Follow-up Trips;132
13.2;Longitudinal Trends in Psychopathology;135
13.3;Longitudinal Aspects of Traumatic Dreams;144
14;Chapter 9. Summing Up
;148
14.1;Conclusions with Respect to Hypotheses Tested;151
14.2;A Proposed Theoretical Framework;159
14.3;Demographic Factors;162
14.4;Other Findings;163
14.5;Future Directions;164
15;References;168
16;Index;174