Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention

Preface; S.E. Hobfoll, M.W. deVries. I: Introduction: Focusing on the Community in the Case of Extreme Stress; S.E. Hobfoll, M.W. deVries, R.P. Cameron. 1. The Community Context of Disaster and Traumatic Stress: an Ecological Perspective from Community Psychology; E.J. Trickett. II: Basic Stress Concepts and Where they Lead in the Study of Community Stress; S.E. Hobfoll, R.P. Cameron, M.W. deVries. 2. Disasters, Stress and Cognition; D. Meichenbaum. 3. Temperament Risk Factor: the Contribution of Temperament to the Consequences of the State of Stress; J. Strelau. 4. Coping with the Loss of a Family Member: Implications for Community-Level Research and Intervention; C.B. Wortman, K.B. Carnelley, D.R. Lehman, C.G. Davis, J.J. Exline. 5. Individual and Community Stress: Integration of Approaches at Different Levels; M. Jerusalem, K. Kaniasty, D.R. Lehman, C. Ritter, G.J. Turnbull. III: Resources to Offset Stress: Applications to the Community Context; S.E. Hobfoll, R.P. Cameron, M.W. deVries. 6. Community Stress and Resources: Actions and Reactions; S.E. Hobfoll, S. Briggs, J. Wells. 7. Optimistic Self-Beliefs as a Resource Factor in Coping with Stress; R. Schwarzer, M. Jerusalem. 8. Stress and Social Support; I.G. Sarason, B.R. Sarason, G.R. Pierce. IV: Bridges to Community Stress; S.E. Hobfoll, R.P. Cameron, M.W. deVries. 9. Prevention of the Consequences of Man-Made or Natural Disaster at the (Inter)National, the Community, the Family, and the Individual Level; J.T.V.M. de Jong. 10. The Pathogenic Effects of War Stress: the Israeli Experience; Z. Solomon. 11. Stress and Disaster; A.C. McFarlane. 12. Methodological Issues in Designing Research on Community-Wide Disasters with Special Reference to Chernobyl; E.J. Bromet. 13. Research Methods and Directions: Establishing the Community Context; F.H. Norris, J.R. Freedy, A. DeLongis, L. Sibilia, W. Schönpflug. V: Long-Term Effects of Community Stress; S.E. Hobfoll, R.P. Cameron, M.W. deVries. 14. Long-Term