Individuals experience crises have an urgent need for assistance. Crisis intervention is used to help the individual or family to...

PHASES OF CRISIS Kaplan (1964) outlined four specific phases through which an individual progress in response to a precipitating stressor...

INTRODUCTION Every individual has undergone one type or another type of stressful situation one time or several times in their life. When...

The Role of the Family  As discussed earlier, many factors can influence the child’s psychological defi nition of family. However, for...

General Steps in the Helping Process  A basic principle of working with children in disasters is that they are essentially normal...

This section of the manual focuses on helping children and their families deal with the emotional aftermath of a disaster. Major disaster...

Adolescents have great need to appear competent to the world around them, especially to their family and friends. Individuals in this age...

Latency Age, Six Years Old Through 11 Years Old Fears and anxieties continue to predominate in the reactions of children in this age...

Sleep Disturbances Sleep disturbances are among the most common problems for children after a disaster. Behaviors associated with sleep...

Normal Reactions to Disaster Induced Stress Most parents recognize when their children’s behavior indicates emotional distress. During...

Mary Main (1996) recently reviewed the field of attachment research. In the years since Bowlby’s original formulation, the concept of...

Children are one of the most vulnerable groups during and following a disaster. A disaster is a strange event that is not easily...

Following a disaster of such magnitude that the President has declared it as eligible for Federal assistance, communities are often in...

If your pet is aging, seriously injured or chronically or terminally ill, you may find yourself experiencing all the emotions of grief in...

Understanding the Grief Process Grief is a normal yet highly personal response to loss. Neither an illness nor a pathological condition,...

Doing Grief Work It is when denial falls away, when you begin to recognize and experience most intensely all the reactions to your loss,...

Recognizing Your Own Progress How do you know you’re making progress in your mourning? Remember that change isn’t always obvious and...

It is difficult to imagine surviving grief much less transcending it. How do you triumph over sorrow when it seems as if your pain will...

With an overwhelming sense of missing the person you’ve loved comes the crushing awareness of all that you’ve lost. You’d give anything...

For weeks, months, or even years after the death of a loved one occurs, the shock of loss continues in a wave of disbelieving...