Hurricane Maria, personal and collective suffering, and psychosocial support as a cross-cutting intervention

Here we discuss the role of psychosocial support activities in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We report comments from 630 survivors from 22 towns. The focus is given to reactions, risk factors and resilience. The responses of the survivors were divided into individual and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of tropical psychology 2017-01, Vol.7, Article e5
1. Verfasser: Diaz, Joseph O. Prewitt
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Here we discuss the role of psychosocial support activities in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We report comments from 630 survivors from 22 towns. The focus is given to reactions, risk factors and resilience. The responses of the survivors were divided into individual and community losses. We propose that the response to such a catastrophic event was psychosocial and give suggestions for psychosocial support during future disaster responses.
ISSN:1838-9902
1838-9902
DOI:10.1017/jtp.2017.6