VISTAS Trauma, Grief, Disaster, and Crisis Counseling

VISTAS Online is an innovative publication produced for ACA by Dr. Garry R. Walz and Dr. Jeanne C. Bleuer of Counseling Outfitters, LLC. Its purpose is to provide a means of capturing the ideas, information and experiences generated by the annual ACA Conference and selected ACA Division Conferences. Papers on a program or practice that has been validated through research or experience may also be submitted. This digital collection of peer-reviewed articles is authored by counselors, for counselors. VISTAS Online contains the full text of over 900 proprietary counseling articles published from 2004 to 2017.



Come Hell and High Water: Reflections on Post Disaster Intervention for Hurricane Ike

Cheryl Sawyer and Tonya R. Hammer

2011

While the American infrastructure toward major natural disaster response has been significantly altered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there is still a need for improvements in understanding the behaviors, perceptions, and needs of those impacted by the storm so that the mental health community can better respond to the next disaster. This article will focus on the needs and perceptions of the storm survivors as described by a cadre of school and mental health counselors who experienced the aftermath of the recovery effort in their own “backyard”. It will also discuss possible disaster recovery options as proposed by prior experience of those directly impacted by natural disaster.

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