Psychosocial Capacity Building in New York: Building Resiliency with Construction Workers Assigned to Ground Zero after 9/11

Authors

Joshua Miller, Smith CollegeFollow
Jeff Grabelsky, Cornell University
K. C. Wagner, Cornell University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-11-2010

Publication Title

Social Work with Groups

Abstract

Construction workers who worked on “Ground Zero” after 9/11 in New York City were exposed to stressful and traumatic conditions. Clinicians, trade union leaders and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations designed a psychosocial capacity-building project which helped workers to recognize, understand and respond to their reactions through a series of interventions that included peer training, psychosocial workshops, brochures, and outreach and referral services. The project emphasized the use of mutual aid and social support through group interventions facilitated by clinicians and offered by trade unions. The article describes the planning and implementation of the project as well as the results of qualitative evaluations of the effectiveness of the project.

Volume

33

Issue

1

First Page

23

Last Page

40

DOI

doi.org/10.1080/01609510903191634

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Rights

© the authors

Comments

Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.

Recommended Citation

Miller, Joshua; Grabelsky, Jeff; and Wagner, K. C., "Psychosocial Capacity Building in New York: Building Resiliency with Construction Workers Assigned to Ground Zero after 9/11" (2010). School for Social Work: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/ssw_facpubs/9