Psychosocial Capacity Building in New York: Building Resiliency with Construction Workers Assigned to Ground Zero after 9/11

Construction workers who worked on "Ground Zero" after 9/11 in New York City were exposed to stressful and traumatic conditions. Clinicians, trade union leaders and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations designed a psychosocial capacity-building project which helped workers t...

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Published inSocial work with groups (New York. 1978) Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 23 - 40
Main Authors Miller, Joshua, Grabelsky, Jeff, Wagner, K. C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2010
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
9/11
Buildings
construction workers
disasters
Effectiveness
Intervention
Labor Relations
Labor unions
Occupational psychology
psychosocial capacity building
psychosocial workshops
Social support
Terrorism
trade unions
Trauma
Unions
Workers
World Trade Center
United States > US
New York City New York
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Summary:Construction workers who worked on "Ground Zero" after 9/11 in New York City were exposed to stressful and traumatic conditions. Clinicians, trade union leaders and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations designed a psychosocial capacity-building project which helped workers to recognize, understand and respond to their reactions through a series of interventions that included peer training, psychosocial workshops, brochures, and outreach and referral services. The project emphasized the use of mutual aid and social support through group interventions facilitated by clinicians and offered by trade unions. The article describes the planning and implementation of the project as well as the results of qualitative evaluations of the effectiveness of the project.
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ISSN:0160-9513
1540-9481
DOI:10.1080/01609510903191634