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| Understanding Mass Violence prepares social workers to intervene with people affected by human-caused violence, such as school shootings or terrorist acts.
The difficult challenges facing social work practitioners are discussed and suggestions for self-care are provided. Mass violence is also examined within the broader context of social policy and social justice.
The book is organized into 5 sections and includes 13 chapters, providing the content for a course on social work and mass violence or trauma. |
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Understanding Mass Violence: A Social Work Perspective, First Edition
Edited by Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner New York University
and Norma Kolko Phillips Lehman College, City University of New York
- Understanding Mass Violence prepares social workers to intervene with people affected by human-caused violence, such as school shootings or terrorist acts.
- Examines mass violence within the broader context of social policy and social justice, and addresses real-life issues of trauma, including its impact and specific interventions.
- Discusses understanding and helping traumatized individuals and families, children, and the elderly; schools, workplaces, and communities that experience mass violence.
- Coverage of retraumatization; the role of religion and spirituality in healing; and secondary trauma that may be experienced by helping professionals.
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- PublisherPearson
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0205375235
- ISBN 13 9780205375233
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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