Southwick Steven M, Satodiya Ritvij, Pietrzak Robert H
Yale University School of Medicine.
Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Neurosciences Division.
J Clin Psychol. 2016 Dec;72(12):1364-1368. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22418.
The articles in this Special Issue are devoted to integrating the fields of disaster mental health and positive psychology. Their focus on resilience building, individual and community preparation, meaning making, and posttraumatic growth represents an important new development in disaster mental health. The overarching goal of this effort is to inform strategies to help both individuals-including children, adolescent, adult disaster survivors, and relief workers-and communities prepare for, respond to, recover from, and possibly even grow stronger in the face of adversity. To achieve this goal, this body of literature suggests that it is important for disaster mental health workers to partner with community leaders, organizations, and the population at large to understand community vulnerabilities, take advantage of existing strengths, and respect cultural factors implicated in disaster recovery. It further suggests that an effective community-based approach to disaster recovery will make psychosocial support and skill-building programs available to large numbers of survivors, which is critical for responding to future national and international disasters. Continued high-quality research that is comprehensive and considers not only relevant psychological, social, cultural, and biological factors but also interrelations between individuals, organizations and communities is needed to advance this relatively new and important direction of the disaster mental health field.
本期特刊中的文章致力于整合灾害心理健康与积极心理学领域。它们对复原力建设、个人和社区准备、意义建构以及创伤后成长的关注代表了灾害心理健康领域一项重要的新发展。这项工作的总体目标是为帮助包括儿童、青少年、成年灾害幸存者和救援人员在内的个人以及社区做好准备、应对、从逆境中恢复甚至可能变得更强大提供策略依据。为实现这一目标，这一系列文献表明，灾害心理健康工作者与社区领袖、组织及广大民众合作，以了解社区脆弱性、利用现有优势并尊重灾害恢复中涉及的文化因素非常重要。它还表明一种有效的基于社区的灾害恢复方法将为大量幸存者提供心理社会支持和技能建设项目，这对于应对未来的国家和国际灾害至关重要。需要持续进行高质量、全面的研究，不仅要考虑相关的心理、社会、文化和生物学因素，还要考虑个人、组织和社区之间的相互关系，以推动灾害心理健康领域这一相对较新且重要的方向发展。
