Lessons in Collaboration, Four Years Post-Katrina

Family Process

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 543-558

  Bava, Saliha ^a,d,e,f   Coffey, Ellen Pulleyblank ^b   Weingarten, Kaethe ^c   Becker, Carol ^c  

^a MERCY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Kennedy University   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Houston Galveston Institute   (United States)

^e International Trauma Studies Program   (United States)

^f The Social Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Community Engagement; Community Resilience; Leadership; Post Disaster Recovery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COOPERATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; SURGE CAPACITY; SURVIVOR; TIME; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL WORK; SURGE CAPACITY; SURVIVORS; TIME;

EID: 78649434843     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01339.x     Document Type: Article

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