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Aug 2, 2019 · This special section in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy: “Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Disaster,” demonstrates the heterogeneity and complexities of religion as a variable of psychological resilience in response to disaster. Research from hurricane, flood, and mass shooting disasters are reported. So too is the development of a new measure of ...
- Building spiritual fortitude and resilience following ...
This chapter examines the intersections of positive...
- Building spiritual fortitude and resilience following ...
- Disaster Recovery as A Dynamic, Evolving Process
- Resource Loss and Access as Critical Junctures
- The Human Drive to Find Meaning Amidst Tragedy
- Recovery Processes as Unfolding Within Relationships
According to the Phases of Disaster Model (Zunin & Myers, 2000), disaster situations evoke a normative trajectory of reactions across time. Although survivors’ responses may vary significantly, this framework offers a helpful heuristic for tracking common responses. In the predisaster phase, fear and uncertainty abound, frequently alongside minimiz...
Conservation of Resources (COR) theory explains individual differences in postdisaster adaptation as stemming from resource loss and access (Hobfoll, 1989). Resources are defined broadly as including material objects (e.g., house, belongings), personal characteristics (e.g., optimism, humor), relational conditions (e.g., companionship, feeling valu...
Meaning-making is a vital process survivors engage in to make sense of disaster (Park, 2016). Park’s (2010) Meaning-Making Model describes survivors’ global meaning, which consists of beliefs, goals, and subjective feelings developed across the lifespan (e.g., a sense of safety, controllability, and justice). Global meaning also includes motives, h...
Disaster unfolds in a social context, and survivors’ social relationships can significantly influence their postdisaster adjustment process. The Social Ecology of Post-Traumatic Stress theory points out that human-caused disaster events produce greater risk for post-traumatic stress, potentially because survivors’ relational schemas (e.g., are othe...
Jun 6, 2022 · This chapter has also illustrated in a case study that culture can be crucial in disaster resilience, specifically on how religion and strong religious faith and belief in God can be utilized by people in highly religious but disaster-prone countries such as the Philippines as a comforting and controlling mechanism to survive during the disaster and become resilient in the midst of the inhuman ...
Oct 11, 2018 · In contrast, survivors who experience religious and spiritual struggles following the disaster were likely to experience concurrent general psychological distress. How the Church Can Respond. Taken as a whole, this research suggests that how people engage religion is a more telling predictor of resilience than simply how religious a person is.
The section ends with a review of 51 empirical resilience studies of religion/spirituality and disaster. There are both ethnic and age differences in how salient a factor religion is after disasters. These papers demonstrate that to engage this complexity will require the expertise and effort-as with all cultural competence-to understand the "made meaning" of the lived experience of religion ...
- Glen Milstein
- 2019
Keywords: spirituality, resilience, post disaster recovery, community, service providers, meaning making. Introduction “How we are able to weather the storm, how we're able to endure the challenges and complications of life that are thrown at us is a sign of our resilience. It's [pause] if we can't handle those, well then, we usually crumble ...
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This chapter examines the intersections of positive psychology and religion/spirituality in the context of disasters. We review the salience of religious/spiritual (R/S) processes in coping with mass trauma and summarize several strength-based disaster recovery theories that contribute to a holistic understanding of survivors’ and communities’ adaptation processes. Building on this review ...
