- Center for Humanitarian Psychology
The Center for Humanitarian Psychology is an international, non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation offering psychological support to humanitarian workers and more generally to victims of conflicts and natural disasters. Information about setting up systems to deal with secondary victims, stress, depression, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (In French, Spanish, English, and German).
URL: http://humanitarian-psy.org/
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- Indicators of Risk in Families Receiving Attention From Social Services
This article presents a psycho-social-epidemiological study using family social risk indicators, carried out within an ecological and systemic framework that considers social risk as a circumstance resulting from interactive dynamics within a human community. 296 reports were selected from a total of 500 sent during 1995 by the community social services of the province of Seville to the Family Assistance Programmes of the provincial council. The sample included those reports that contained sufficient information to analyse all of the 45 previously defined risk indicators and their interactions.
URL: http://www.psychologyinspain.com/content/full/1998/8frame.htm
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- Risk and the Welfare State
The British welfare state developed as a state-centred response to the problem of handling the risks encountered in a typical life-course. An influential recent approach implies that the traditional welfare state is under attack from two directions: a changing international politico-economic environment limits the freedom of national governments to pursue independent policies involving relatively high taxation to finance social spending. At the same time, changes in the experience of risk and a decline in confidence in the expertise of planners and professionals undermine support for state-centred solutions.
URL: http://www.kent.ac.uk/ESRC/risk.htm
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