Reported Emotional Stress Following a Disaster

Acute postdisaster coping and adjustment

“…Although some other researchers have also reported low rates of psychopathology following tornadoes (Taylor et al, 1976;Penick et al, 1976) others have uncovered considerable emotional upset (Moore and Friedsam 1959;Parker 1975). One explanation for this might be that tornadoes do not evoke psychiatric symptomatology, due to some intrinsic characteristic or characteristics.…”

Home Care During the Aftermath of Hurricane Hugo

“…A large number of victims and workers were interviewed, but no data were reported about the specific experiences of nurses. Many writers described the psychologic reactions of persons involved in disasters (Cohen & Ahearn, 1980;Demi & Miles, 1983;Fogleman & Parenton, 1959;Fritz & Marks, 1954;Green, 1982;Laube, 1973Laube, , 1985aMelick, 1985;Moore & Friedsam, 1959;Perry & Lindell, 1978;Quarantelli & Dynes, 1973;Rayner, 1958;Shader & Schwartz, 1966).…”

“…Family roles are particularly important in times of crisis (Fogleman & Parenton, 1959;Laube, 1985b;Moore & Friedsam, 1959). Health care workers who reside in a disaster area have an exceptional amount of stress (Laube, 1985b).…”

Traumatic stress as an area for research

“…Working originally through university research groups, and later at the request of military services (Mangelsdorff, 1985) the early researchers were formed into the Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. Their work fostered a number of research reports of individual disasters (for example, Clifford, 1956;Fritz, 1957;Fritz and Marks, 1954;Killian, 1956;Moore and Friedsam 1959;Perry and Perry, 1959;Perry et al, 1956;Wallace, 1956) and culminated in a collected work edited by Baker and Chapman (1962). The approach taken in these studies interpreted the individual's behavior as part of the larger social context, and was likely to focus on attitudes, roles, communications, and self-reported assessments of the individual's functioning.…”