Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters Coping with Katrina, Rita
Some of our most disturbing images of Hurricane Katrina involve the very old, trapped in flooded nursing homes, and the very young, sick in toxic trailers. Using the Katrina-Rita nexus as its reference point, Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters tak
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Katie E. Cherry Editor
Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms
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Editor Katie E. Cherry Department of Psychology Louisiana State University 236 Audubon Hall Baton Rouge LA 70803-5501 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0392-1 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0393-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0393-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929717 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Part I
Children and Adolescents
1 Young Children’s Demonstrated Understanding of Hurricanes . . Teresa K. Buchanan, Renée M. Casbergue, and Jennifer J. Baumgartner 2 An Ecological-Needs-Based Perspective of Adolescent and Youth Emotional Development in the Context of Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina . . . . . . . . . . . . Carl F. Weems and Stacy Overstreet 3 Positive Adjustment in Youth Post-Katrina: The Impact of Child and Maternal Social Support and Coping . . Julia F. Vigna, Brittany C. Hernandez, Valerie Paasch, Arlene T. Gordon, and Mary L. Kelley 4 The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Children and Adolescents: Conceptual and Methodological Implications for Assessment and Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . Russell T. Jones, Kelly Dugan Burns, Christopher S. Immel, Rachel M. Moore, Kathryn Schwartz-Goel, and Bonnie Culpepper Part II
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Young and Middle-Age Adults
5 The Psychological Impact of Hurricanes and Storms on Adults . . Thompson E. Davis III, Erin V. Tarcza, and Melissa S. Munson
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6 Families and Disasters: Making Meaning out of Adversity . . . . M.E. Betsy Garrison and Diane D. Sasser
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Part III Older Adults and the Oldest-Old 7 Encounters with Katrina: Dynamics of Older Adults’ Social Support Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen A. Roberto, Yoshinori Kamo, and Tammy Henderson
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8 Disaster Services with Frail Older Persons: From Preparation to Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla D. Allen and H. Wayne Nelson
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9 Natural Disasters and the Oldest-Old: A Psychological Perspective on Coping and Health in Late Life . . . . . . . . . . . Katie E. Cherry, Jennifer L. Silva, and Sandro Galea
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10 Faith, Crisis, Coping,
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