Crisis Of Competence: Transitional..Stress And The Displaced

Carl A. Maida is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Sustainability and Communities of Place (2007), Pathways Through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture (2008) and Children and Disasters (1999). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Norma S. Gordon, M.A. ,developed intervention programs in the fields of child abuse prevention, disaster mental health, and displaced worker counseling; and conducted research on the psychological and social impacts of natural disasters funded by the National Science Foundation. She provided disaster mental health consultation and emergency preparedness training to the National Institute of Mental Health, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross. Norman L. Farberow, Ph.D., co-founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center and the International Society for Suicide Prevention, and served as president of two American Psychological Association Divisions and of national and international associations for suicide prevention. He received several awards for his contributions to clinical psychology and suicide prevention.

• Editorial Note, Acknowledgments, Foreword by Alfred H. Katz, Preface, 1. Community Crisis: Individual and Collective Responses to Job Loss, 2. The Mental Health of Displaced Workers: An Overview, 3. Displaced Worker Programs: A Community-Crisis Approach, 4. The Mental Health Consultation Model and Displaced Worker Programs, 5. Shutdown at Southgate: The Closing of a General Motors Assembly Plant, 6. Competence and Empowerment: Prevention Approaches, 7. Clinical Perspectives on Displaced Workers, References, Name Index, Subject Index, About the Authors