When There Are No Therapists: A Psychoeducational Group for People Who Have Experienced Social Disasters

A social disaster is when categories of people are politically or socially targeted by virtue of their social identities and suffer ongoing targeting and oppression. Survivors of social disasters often experience similar traumatic symptoms as those of survivors of natural disasters but, unlike most...

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Published inSmith College studies in social work Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 39 - 58
Main Authors Miller, Joshua, Wang, Xiying
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norhampton Routledge 02.01.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Control
Disaster
Locus of control
Morality
Natural disasters
Oppression
psychoeducational groups
resilience
Sense of control
Social identity
Survivor
Therapists
training-of-trainers
Trauma
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Summary:A social disaster is when categories of people are politically or socially targeted by virtue of their social identities and suffer ongoing targeting and oppression. Survivors of social disasters often experience similar traumatic symptoms as those of survivors of natural disasters but, unlike most other types of disasters, the threats that caused the trauma and the conditions that undermine survivor's identity, safety, trust, and sense of control continue to exist. This article shares a model of a psychoeducational group developed and field tested by the authors and used with a group of people targeted because of their queer identities.
ISSN:0037-7317
1553-0426
DOI:10.1080/00377317.2018.1404293