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Theoretical overview of disaster stressors and responses: Relational and clinical implications

The Intersection of Trauma and Disaster Behavioral Health, Page: 65-83
2020
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Intentional use of theory to guide family-focused disaster research has many benefits that will help to advance the field. Theory-driven inquiry allows researchers to advance programs of scholarship that are less reactive to specific disaster events and more nuanced in developing our understanding of how families are affected and respond to disasters. Scholars studying families in the wake of disaster have utilized a variety of theories to formulate questions and to guide data analyses. This chapter first outlines the need for family-focused scholarship in the area of disaster studies and emphasizes the need for continued theory-driven research programs pertaining to natural disaster and the family. The next section of this chapter presents the tenets and prior use of four prominent theoretical lenses used by disaster scholars in the past two decades including the conservation of resources theory, ecological theory, attachment theory, and the family stress theory. Research and clinical implications of utilizing each theory are discussed, as well as suggestions for the development of programmatic research questions connected with each theory. Directions for future research with families building upon established theories and cross-disciplinary perspectives are considered.

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Alyssa Banford Witting; Lacey A. Bagley

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Psychology; Medicine; Social Sciences; Health Professions; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Environmental Science

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