Disaster response: risk, vulnerability and resilience

By Douglas Paton, Leigh M. Smith, J. Violanti. 2000

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The assumption of an automatic link between disaster exposure and pathological outcomes is increasingly being questioned. Recognition of the possibility of positive reactions and growth outcomes in this context necessitates the development of alternative models and, in particular, the accommodation of the resilience construct in research and intervention agenda. Reviews possible vulnerability and resilience factors and adopts a risk management framework to outline its potential for modelling the complex relationships between these variables and both growth and distress outcomes. Resilience and vulnerability is discussed at dispositional, cognitive and organisational levels. The paradigm developed here focuses attention on facilitating recovery and growth in professionals for whom disaster work and its consequences is an occupational reality.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medical Services

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Resilience to loss and potential trauma. (2011, background): “The risk management framework provides a flexible vehicle for understanding, analyzing, and predicting variability in outcome when people are exposed to PTEs (Paton et al. 2000).”
Weighing the Costs of Disaster (2010, background): “Most prominently, compared with the nonexposed controls, both the younger and older child survivors had significantly greater postdisaster increases in musculoskeletal problems.”