Crises in Rural America: Critical Incidents, Trauma and Disasters

Doherty, George W.

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“…Participants in this study were exposed to graphic and potentially traumatizing images and experienced a range of emotional, physical, and spiritual reactions similar to symptoms of secondary traumatic stress. Studies conducted with individuals in emergency service–related occupations (police, fire, U.S. military) post–September 11, 2001, identified significant traumatic responses occurring in individuals indirectly exposed to the tragedy through extensive and graphic media coverage (Beaton, Murphy, Johnson, & Nemuth, 2004; Doherty, 2004; Speckhard, 2002).…”

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The emotional impact on and coping strategies employed by police teams investigating internet child exploitation.

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Work on Internet child exploitation (ICE) teams require individuals to perform a number of investigative tasks, including viewing graphic images and videos of young children being sexually assaulted and tortured, to identify victims and locate perpetrators. Individuals involved in this work may be at higher risk for experiencing secondary traumatic stress because of the graphic images and sounds to which they are exposed. The impact of ICE investigations and what helps and hinders coping with the work was explored using the Critical Incident Technique with 14 members of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police integrated ICE team. Results suggest that there are a number of organizational and personal strategies that can assist those who work in this field to cope more effectively.

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“…The current literature broadly presents two differing views of the inherent differences between urban and rural areas when it comes to disaster vulnerability and recovery. Some researchers describe rural communities as having more limited capabilities than urban areas, significantly lacking in resources, unable to fully benefit from the resources made available after a disaster, failing to deliver basic services day-to-day, and quickly losing social support systems in the face of systemic pressures such as shrinking local economies (Downey 2016;Mogle 2017;Tierney 2013;Doherty 2004). This particular view of rural communities is succinctly stated by Tierney, who describes rural communities as "under resourced places in which the capacity to anticipate, cope, and adapt has been seriously compromised (Tierney 2013, p.…”

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“…Rural areas in the United States often lack zoning and building codes or lack the capacity to fully enforce existing codes (May 2013;Schwab 2016). At a more fundamental level, rural communities have been struggling to maintain even basic government services in light of economic conditions and changing rural environments and economies, such as the loss of jobs and displacement of small farms (Doherty 2004;Waugh 2013). Rural populations have been declining, with a drop of nearly 200,000 people between 2010 and 2016, due to factors such as outmigration of young adults, fewer births, and an aging population.…”

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“…At the same time, job growth in rural counties following 2011 was substantially lower than in urban counties and the poverty rates much higher (USDA 2017). This has led to the disappearance of support and social systems, at the same time that necessary services such as health services are becoming less available (Doherty 2004). These challenges have been described as a slowly growing crisis, even outside of a more traditional natural disaster.…”

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Challenges of Post-Disaster Recovery in Rural Areas

Jerolleman

2019

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Although disaster losses frequently occur in rural and agricultural areas, a significant majority of the existing disaster research has focused on urban areas and coasts, often overlooking rural populations and communities (Cutter et al. 2016; Tierney 2013). Our research-based understanding of the recovery of housing post disasters in rural areas is even more limited, again with much of the current scholarship focused on urban areas and cities (Ganapati et al. 2013). Furthermore, the majority of the limited studies that have taken place in rural communities have focused on environmental or technological disasters, such as mining-related incidents, and not on more frequently occurring events such as disaster losses from flooding (Scott et al. 2012). Rising disaster losses and increasing frequency of events across the United States coupled with a current political climate that does not result in a national consensus demand more local responsibility for disaster recovery, when less federal aid is offered as a result, making rural disaster studies a particularly pressing issue. Even if recommendations to address climate change are taken, communities will continue to experience increasing impacts and will be expected to take on a greater percentage of the burden for disaster recovery (Coppola 2016). Research has shown that disaster impacts can best be mediated at the local level, where the most effective risk reduction measures can be undertaken and the most effective policies enacted. Thus, there is a "silver lining" to shift to more local disaster recovery and adaptation attention. Unfortunately, achieving success in risk reduction is far more challenging for communities that lack sufficient resources to ensure the success of these measures and much less have the resources to fund their own adaptation programs (Haddow 2016a, b).

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Crises in Rural America: Critical Incidents, Trauma and Disasters

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The emotional impact on and coping strategies employed by police teams investigating internet child exploitation.

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