Women and Disasters

摘要: This chapter summarizes the complex ways in which people experience disasters. These experiences are organized into categories of traumatic stressors, loss, ongoing adversities, and community effects meanings. The explores most acutely severe personally aspects disaster exposure: loss life bereavement; threat to life, injury, fear; witnessing horror. Damage home property, often accompanied by financial may be prototypical stressor associated with natural stressful trauma followed a host challenges poor housing conditions, rebuilding, other stressors postdisaster environment. Postdisaster typically captured research measures events or chronic stress. Development validation quantitative that encompass both universal culture-specific responses could help address current cross-cultural transnational assessment challenges.