Postdisaster social work

Title: Postdisaster social work
Creator: Harms, Louise; Alston, Margaret
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 71, Issue 4, p. 386-391
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2018.1495241
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, 2016), a disaster is technically defined as “a situation or event that overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request at the national or international level for external assistance; an unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction and human suffering” (p. 13). Social workers have long been involved in supporting people in the aftermath of such events—for instance, after cyclones, bushfires, floods, earthquakes, and increasingly, terrorism, and violence. There are many other events that may be regarded as “slow-onset” but, by their catastrophic impact, can equally be regarded as disasters in that similarly they cause great damage, destruction, and human suffering. These would include drought and famine, and desertification caused by land clearing.
Subject: postdiaster; social work; slow-onset; catastrophic impact
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1443735
Identifier: uon:42092
Identifier: ISSN:0312-407X
Language: eng
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