Meaning Making in the Context of Disasters

Park, Crystal L.

doi:10.1002/jclp.22270

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“…With limited opportunities for participation in services held at formal places of worship, disaster survivors may turn to spirituality to find a greater sense of meaning (Park, 2016) or to counter disaster-related distress . To be precise, many churches and formal places of worship were destroyed and never rebuilt after the 2005 hurricanes.…”

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Spirituality, Humor, and Resilience After Natural and Technological Disasters

Cherry

Sampson

Galea

et al. 2018

J of Nursing Scholarship

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Spirituality, Humor, and Resilience After Natural and Technological Disasters

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Galea

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J of Nursing Scholarship

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“…Giving meaning to something can have a positive effect on people's resilience and recovery from stressful events (Park, 2016). Benedek and Fullerton (2007) underlined the relevance of the "essential principles" (Hobfoll et al, 2007; see "provide a supportive context" in the previous section), but emphasized something was missing, namely a "vehicle" to bring the principles into practice.…”

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Psychosocial Crisis Management: The Unexplored Intersection of Crisis Leadership and Psychosocial Support

Dückers¹,

Yzermans²,

Jong³

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Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Epidemiological research has documented the serious health issues that can affect the victims of disasters and major crises. Yet, the psychosocial dimension of crisis has received little attention in crisis management literature. This paper integrates psychosocial principles with a model of strategic crisis management. The resulting model of psychosocial crisis management (PCM) describes how the tasks of strategic crisis managers can be guided by psychosocial support principles. This PCM‐model helps public leaders, at society and local community level, to better understand typical psychosocial dynamics and obstacles as the crisis life cycle evolves. Although crisis management insights and psychosocial support principles stem from different disciplines and research traditions, integrating them helps to reduce foreseeable problems in the response and recovery phases.

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“…Disasters may undermine a sense of meaning and purpose in life by violating or even shattering one's global views and understanding of the world, self, and others, as well as one's goals and way of living. In discussing the importance of maintaining a sense of meaning and purpose in the context of disasters, Park (, this volume) observes that “the ability to maintain a sense that their lives matter, that they have viable goals to accomplish may allow survivors to persevere and to find sustenance in the midst of catastrophic circumstances” (p. 4). Similarly, Aiena, Buchanan, Smith, and Schulenberg (, this volume) report that meaning making has been found to be a strong predictor of overall resilience and may provide a foundation for other resilience factors such as active coping, perseverance, and equanimity.…”

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Disaster Mental Health and Positive Psychology: An Afterward to the Special Issue

2016

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The articles in this Special Issue are devoted to integrating the fields of disaster mental health and positive psychology. Their focus on resilience building, individual and community preparation, meaning making, and posttraumatic growth represents an important new development in disaster mental health. The overarching goal of this effort is to inform strategies to help both individuals-including children, adolescent, adult disaster survivors, and relief workers-and communities prepare for, respond to, recover from, and possibly even grow stronger in the face of adversity. To achieve this goal, this body of literature suggests that it is important for disaster mental health workers to partner with community leaders, organizations, and the population at large to understand community vulnerabilities, take advantage of existing strengths, and respect cultural factors implicated in disaster recovery. It further suggests that an effective community-based approach to disaster recovery will make psychosocial support and skill-building programs available to large numbers of survivors, which is critical for responding to future national and international disasters. Continued high-quality research that is comprehensive and considers not only relevant psychological, social, cultural, and biological factors but also interrelations between individuals, organizations and communities is needed to advance this relatively new and important direction of the disaster mental health field.

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Meaning Making in the Context of Disasters

Abstract: Although much more research is needed, current literature suggests that meaning making processes are central to recovery and resilience after a range of disasters.

Cited by 171 publications

References 57 publications

Spirituality, Humor, and Resilience After Natural and Technological Disasters

Spirituality, Humor, and Resilience After Natural and Technological Disasters

Psychosocial Crisis Management: The Unexplored Intersection of Crisis Leadership and Psychosocial Support

Disaster Mental Health and Positive Psychology: An Afterward to the Special Issue

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