Ritual, Recovery and Guy Fawkes
Prue Fanselow-Brown
A community’s resilience may be defined as its capacity to withstand major trauma and loss, overcome adversity, and to prevail, usually with increased resources, competence and connectedness. After trauma the community and its members face challenges arising from major disruptions to life, stress, loss and grief, and ruptures in connectedness. This comes as no surprise to us Cantabrians.
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Earthquake Aftermath
Dr Fran Vertue
It’s the end of October 2010, and there have been over 2000 earthquakes since 4 September.
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Earthquake: Trauma and Stress
Dr Fran Vertue
Everyone in Christchurch has experienced extremely traumatic events over the past few days.
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