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CHAPTER 18 Trauma and Resiliency in Disaster Mental Health Counseling The intent of this chapter is to discuss how mental health counselors can cultivate resiliency approaches with individuals, families, and communities that have been at the epicenter of disaster and trauma. I offer both well-researched resiliency approaches, approaches that have cultural-specific meaning, as well as those utilized across a variety of disciplines that may be endorsed by personal testimonial. It is anticipated that seasoned mental health professionals will go beyond the traditional diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic stress and co-occurring disorders. The overall intent is to offer multiple healing approaches to treat the mind, body, and spirit for integration in everyday life. Truly, there are multiple challenges during times of mass disaster where populations closest to the epicenter have exposure to the harshest conditions, chaotic situations, and intense images, sounds, smells, and other sensations, which all become mapped and trapped in the mind, body, and spirit. It is important and necessary for the stories of trauma to be told. The cultural and therapeutic communities must participate as witnesses to the journey of healing trauma. Healing the mental, physical, and spiritual wounds of trauma requires the participation of family members and the culture to help cultivate coping and resiliency approaches. Building resiliency and psychological hardiness does not just begin with day one of a critical event. Rather, cultivating resiliency occurs in disaster preparation and long-term recovery. PRINCIPLES OF RESILIENCY There are excellent models of cultivating resiliency that can be integrated into programs for healing. For example, the research in posttraumatic growth (PTG; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996, 2004; Updegraff & Taylor, 2000), resiliency (Kumpfer, 1999; Siebert, 2005; Wright, 1983), hardiness (Bandura, 1997; Kobasa, 1979), and positive psychology (Csikszentmihalyi & Nakamura, 2002) suggests that many people have the ability to emerge from extraordinary stressful and traumatic experiences and be transformed into a new depth of understanding, establish purpose for their life, and develop a peaceful resolve. Marini
Disaster Mental Health Counseling : Responding to Trauma in a Multicultural Context, edited by Mark A., PhD, LPC, DCMHS, CRC, CCM, CCMC Stebnicki, Springer Publishing Company, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/liberty/detail.action?docID=4751279.
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Stebnicki, M. A. P. L. D. (Ed.). (2016). Disaster mental health counseling : Responding to trauma in a multicultural context. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu