Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common psychiatric
disorders found among victims of disaster, kidnapping, accidents, sexual assaults and war in …

The most thorough major academic textbook available, this classic text presents the most
important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person …

Several individual-level factors are known to promote psychological resilience in the
aftermath of disasters. Far less is known about the role of community-level factors in shaping …

In the aftermath of a disaster, the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is high. We
sought to examine whether the predisaster level of community social cohesion was …

In this groundbreaking volume, Vezzali and Stathi present their research program within the
larger contact literature, examining classic theories and current empirical findings, to show …

The collapse of the Morandi bridge in Italy, which took place in the summer of 2018, has had
enormous emotional, economic, and social consequences for the inhabitants of the area …

Objectives To test for statistically significant changes in crime rates across neighbourhoods
in Saskatoon, Canada resulting from social restrictions within the natural experiment of the …

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical
sociology beginning with the field's origins in medicine and extending to its present-day …

As part of community resilience policy, urban dwellers are advised to get to 'know their
neighbours' so that they are more likely to turn to them in an emergency. But the idea that …

The Chinese government has adopted a “community building” strategy nationwide to build
community capacity by expanding community-based services since the mid-1980s. This …