Collective efficacy following a series of natural disasters

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Innovations in Disaster Mental Health: Psychological First Aid (2008, background): “Providing practical assistance is one of the primary functions of PFA because disaster research has repeatedly revealed that those who lose the most personal, social, and economic resources are the most devastated by mass trauma, and those who are able to sustain their resources have the best abilit”
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence (2007, background): “This can be extended to collective efficacy, which is the sense that one belongs to a group that is likely to experience positive outcomes (Antonovsky, 1979; Benight, 2004).”
Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness (2008, background): “…perceptions of community resilience (Kimhi and Shamai 2004; Pooley et al. 2006), sense of community (Paton et al. 2001), or collective efficacy (Benight 2004) correlate with individual-level outcomes, but no study, to our knowledge, has truly examined how independently assessed community…”