Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
Smith College Studies in Social Work
Abstract
A social disaster is when categories of people are politically or socially targeted by virtue of their social identities and suffer ongoing targeting and oppression. Survivors of social disasters often experience similar traumatic symptoms as those of survivors of natural disasters but, unlike most other types of disasters, the threats that caused the trauma and the conditions that undermine survivor’s identity, safety, trust, and sense of control continue to exist. This article shares a model of a psychoeducational group developed and field tested by the authors and used with a group of people targeted because of their queer identities.
Keywords
Disaster, psychoeducational groups, resilience, trauma, training-of-trainers
Volume
88
Issue
1
DOI
doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2018.1404293
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rights
Licensed to Smith College and distributed CC-BY under the Smith College Faculty Open Access Policy
Recommended Citation
Miller, Joshua and Wang, Xiying, "When There Are No Therapists: A Psychoeducational Group for People Who Have Experienced Social Disasters" (2018). School for Social Work: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/ssw_facpubs/4
Comments
Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.